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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

hyprcubd.com (offline)

prometheus.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2004

2015

1999

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.8.0, 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

Import of XML data possible

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

token access

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