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DBMS > Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. TempoIQ

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIndustry 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.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSpotifyGoogleTobias Oetikerinformationpartners gmbhTempoIQ
Initial release20142011199920152012
Current release1.23, February 20211.8.0, 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
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++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple authentication-based access control

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