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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteprometheus.iorethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20152009201820172011
Current release2.4.1, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++ScalaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoImport of XML data possiblenononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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