DBMS > Axibase vs. FatDB vs. RRDtool vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FatDB vs. RRDtool vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

FatCloud

Tobias Oetiker

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2012

1999

2020

Current release

15585

1.8.0, 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

in-process shared library
Pipes

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
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#
C++
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

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