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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Spotify

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2014

2010

2013

1999

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

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

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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