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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RRDtool

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIndustry 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGeoSpockChris DavisOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Tobias Oetiker
Initial release200619841999
Current release2.0, September 20197.4.1.1, 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptPythonC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
HP Open VMSHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesNumeric 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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
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 proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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