DBMS > Cassandra vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

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.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.actian.com/ingres

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Tobias Oetiker

SiteWhere

Initial release

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1999

2010

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

11.2, May 2022

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

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

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Ingres Replicator

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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