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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

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.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2013

1999

2020

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

1.8.0, 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

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

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