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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. Graphite vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. Graphite vs. RRDtool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIndustry 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.compinot.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-weboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.pinot.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris DavisTobias Oetiker
Initial release1999201520061999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaPythonC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Unix
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C 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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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