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DBMS > Graphite vs. Ingres vs. OpenQM vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ingres vs. OpenQM vs. RRDtool

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWell established RDBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSIndustry 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 modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.actian.com/­ingresoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperChris DavisActian CorporationRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTobias Oetiker
Initial release20061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19931999
Current release11.2, May 20223.4-121.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric 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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
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 proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoMVCCyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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