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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. TDengine

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A multi-model DBMS and application serverIndustry 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.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.intersystems.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationInterSystemsTobias OetikerTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release1979199719992019
Current releaseV12, November 20202018.1.4, May 20201.8.0, 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,depending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnonenoneSharding
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).Source-replica replicationnoneyes
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
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDno
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-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEInterSystems CachéRRDtoolTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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