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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. FeatureBase vs. RRDtool vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. FeatureBase vs. RRDtool vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.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.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.featurebase.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.featurebase.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperFairCom CorporationMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsTobias OetikerVictoriaMetrics
Initial release1979201719992018
Current releaseV12, November 20202022, May 20221.8.0, 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageANSI C, C++GoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesNumeric 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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Java
Python
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 proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesno

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