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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, 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.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masteross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOpenNMS GroupquasardbTobias OetikerDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20082014200919992018
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryNumeric 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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java.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
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoRole-based access control

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