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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Dgraph vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

dgraph.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2016

1999

2015

Current release

15585

1.8.0, 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

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

Planned for future releases

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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