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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#304	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.01
Rank	#180	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.54
Rank	#140	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.mcobject.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Alibaba

McObject

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2001

1999

Current release

8.2, 2021

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data only

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

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