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DBMS > Drizzle vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  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.Industry 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.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerTobias OetikerSAP, SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2008199919872018
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.8.0, 202216.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.no infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
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
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava and Transact-SQLyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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