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DBMS > IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 simplicityIndustry 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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.orgvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Tobias OetikerApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20171999201420002018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data onlyyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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 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
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanononono
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenonenoneSynchronous replication
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 nodesnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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