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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIndustry 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.ioopennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netquasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masteross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperRackspaceOpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbTobias Oetiker
Initial release20132014201120091999
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binaryNumeric 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.nonononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnononoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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 proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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