DBMS > Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. RRDtool vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. RRDtool vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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.

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.57
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	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

Tobias Oetiker

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2006

2021

1999

2018

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

1.8.0, 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

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

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

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