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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opennms.github.io/newts

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2015

2014

1999

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

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

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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