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DBMS > IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 simplicityEmbeddable 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. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Tobias OetikerSQream Technologies
Initial release2017201319992017
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 20241.8.0, 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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