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DBMS > Spark SQL vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Spark SQL vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. XTDB

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NameSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.timescale.comvictoriametrics.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTimescaleVictoriaMetricsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014201720182019
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.15.0, May 2024v1.91, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaCGoClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumerics, 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
.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 shellnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, utilizing Spark Coreyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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