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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb vs. SurrealDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteprometheus.iowww.sequoiadb.comsurrealdb.comwww.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.SurrealDB LtdTimescaleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152013202220171987
Current releasev1.5.0, May 20242.15.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++RustCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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 possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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