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DBMS > Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingIndustry 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.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmachbase.comwww.memcached.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperChris DavisMachbaseDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTobias OetikerSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20062013200319991994
Current releaseV8.0, August 20231.6.27, May 20241.8.0, 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocolin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnonoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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