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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Hive vs. RRDtool vs. VoltDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIndustry 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.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iohive.apache.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookTobias OetikerVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2015201219992010
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.8.0, 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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 possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
in-process shared library
Pipes
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
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
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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