DBMS > EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Esgyn

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Yandex

Initial release

2015

2010

2013

1999

2023

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Erlang

C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access Control Lists

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