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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#342	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2014

2010

1999

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

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

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 rights for users can be defined per database

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