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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. XTDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applicationsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteprometheus.iowww.timescale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperTimescaleTranswarpJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201520172019
Current release2.15.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OpenCypherHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributeshorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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