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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RRDtool vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Tobias Oetiker

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

1999

2009

Current release

4.4, October 2021

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

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

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

Numeric data only

yes

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

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

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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 can be defined per database

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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