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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
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Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
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Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

prometheus.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

prometheus.io/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Tobias Oetiker

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2006

2015

1999

2000

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

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

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import of XML data possible

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

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

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

via file-system locks

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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