DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseIndustry 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 serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTobias Oetikerinformationpartners gmbhSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122011199920152011
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.8.0, 20221.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsWindows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
in-process shared library
Pipes
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
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
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBasenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache DruidOpenTSDBRRDtoolsearchxmlSTSdb
DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Druid Wins Best Big Data Product in the 2023 BigDATAwire Readers' Choice Awards
26 January 2024, Datanami

'Lucifer' Botnet Turns Up the Heat on Apache Hadoop Servers
21 February 2024, Dark Reading

New DDoS malware Attacking Apache big-data stack, Hadoop, & Druid Servers
26 February 2024, GBHackers

Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
16 June 2022, The Next Platform

How to connect DataGrip to Apache Druid | by Zisis Flokas
18 October 2021, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

Pinterest Switches from OpenTSDB to Their Own Time Series Database
16 September 2018, InfoQ.com

Brain Monitoring with Kafka, OpenTSDB, and Grafana
5 August 2016, KDnuggets

Comparing Different Time-Series Databases
10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

MapR to help admins peer into dense Hadoop clusters
28 June 2016, SiliconANGLE News

LogicMonitor Rolls a Time Series Database for Finer-Grain Reporting
1 June 2016, The New Stack

provided by Google News

SQLi vulnerability in Cacti could lead to RCE (CVE-2023-51448)
9 January 2024, Help Net Security

Critical IP spoofing bug patched in Cacti
15 December 2022, The Daily Swig

How to install Cacti SNMP Monitor on Ubuntu
24 November 2017, TechRepublic

The 16 Best Open Source Network Monitoring Tools in 2023
21 October 2022, Solutions Review

Graph Your Network with Cacti
1 January 2009, Open Source For You

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here