DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

sqream.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

SQream Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2013

1999

2017

2016

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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