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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used open source 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.

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.mysql.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tobias Oetiker

Yandex

Initial release

2009

2013

1995

1999

2023

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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