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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry 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 modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.exasol.comprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedExasolTobias Oetiker
Initial release2012200020151999
Current release21.2, February 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyNumeric 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.nono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
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 proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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