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DBMS > Graphite vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. TerarkDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIndustry 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.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webquasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­masteross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperChris DavisquasardbTobias OetikerByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2006200919992016
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryNumeric data onlyno
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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