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DBMS > Hypertable vs. RDF4J vs. RRDtool vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. RDF4J vs. RRDtool vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.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.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelWide column storeRDF storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiterdf4j.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolswaydb.simer.auvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Tobias OetikerSimer PlahaVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20092004199920182018
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.8.0, 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyno
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.no infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
in-process shared library
Pipes
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnonenonenoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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