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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. KairosDB vs. RRDtool vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Name

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Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Tobias Oetiker

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

2004

2013

1999

2012

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2.2, November 2018

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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

Java

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency
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

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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