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DBMS > Axibase vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationIndustry 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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.58
Rank#138  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financeoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationTobias OetikerSiteWhere
Initial release201319992010
Current release155851.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringNumeric 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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
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 proceduresyesno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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