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DBMS > etcd vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. Trafodion

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeA 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.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­masteross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.quasardbTobias OetikerApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2017200919992014
Current release3.4, August 2019V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryNumeric 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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP APIHTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
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
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuanonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes, watching key changesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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