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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

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Score	6.38
Rank	#54	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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Recent citations in the news

NoSQL pioneer Basho stamps its mark on time stamp data with Riak TS
6 October 2015, The Register

Basho releases open-source version of Riak TS
6 May 2016, SDTimes.com

Is Riak A Good NoSQL Database Option For Enterprises?
1 July 2019, AIM

Best open source databases for IoT applications
26 May 2017, Open Source For You

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