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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffTobias Oetikerinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2014199920152017
Current release1.8.0, 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP-UX
Linux
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared library
Pipes
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesRole-based access control

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