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DBMS > IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. SiriDB vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. SiriDB vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.Open Source Time Series DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsiridb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.siridb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Tobias OetikerCesbitAurelius, owned by DataStaxApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20171999201720122014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.8.0, 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache 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# availableCJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxHP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data onlyyes infoNumeric datayesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.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 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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuanonoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyesyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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