DBMS > EsgynDB vs. MariaDB vs. Netezza vs. RisingWave vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. MariaDB vs. Netezza vs. RisingWave vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.risingwave.com/database

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Esgyn

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

IBM

RisingWave Labs

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2015

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2000

2022

1999

Current release

11.5.2, August 2024

1.2, September 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Rust

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

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Docker
Linux
macOS

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

Numeric data only

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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