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DBMS > etcd vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Valentina Server

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-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.Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­spotify/­heroicprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
spotify.github.io/­heroicprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperSpotifyTobias OetikerParadigma Software
Initial release2014201519991999
Current release3.4, August 20191.8.0, 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyNumeric 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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersyes, watching key changesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
nonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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