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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionEmbeddable 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. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnrocksdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEsgynFacebook, Inc.Tobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152013199920011987
Current release9.4.0, June 20241.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxHP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlynoyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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