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DBMS > Geode vs. RRDtool vs. Valkey

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. RRDtool vs. Valkey

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonValkey infoOpen source key/value datastore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesIndustry 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.Open source key/value datastore
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#139  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#169  Overall
#27  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolvalkey.io
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docgithub.com/­valkey-io/­valkey
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Tobias Oetiker
Initial release200219992024
Current release1.1, February 20171.8.0, 2022Valkey 8.0.1, October 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric 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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
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 proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableno

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