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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIndustry 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.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgspotify.github.io/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotifyTobias Oetiker
Initial release2015201419992009
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
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
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
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 systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
nonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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