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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached vs. MonetDB vs. RRDtool

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA relational database management system that stores data in columnsIndustry 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.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financemaxdb.sap.comwww.memcached.orgwww.monetdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAxibase CorporationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMonetDB BVTobias Oetiker
Initial release20131984200320041999
Current release155857.9.10.12, February 20241.6.27, May 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyesNumeric data only
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 possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary protocolJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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