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DBMS > GridGain vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry 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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Tobias OetikerAlex Kashirin
Initial release2007201519992020
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.8.0, 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyNumeric 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.yesno infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnono

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