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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. STSdb

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIndustry 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.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­masteross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperCirconus LLC.quasardbTobias OetikerSTS Soft SC
Initial release2017200919992011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC#
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryNumeric data onlyyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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