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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. RRDtool vs. Vitess

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.Industry 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.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.harperdb.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBTobias OetikerThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release201719992013
Current release3.1, August 20211.8.0, 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageNode.jsC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesNumeric 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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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