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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Spotify

Tobias Oetiker

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2014

1999

2020

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

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

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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 Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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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