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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingIndustry 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 search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.36
Rank#272  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ittia.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperITTIA L.L.C.Tobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release200719992001
Current release8.71.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/IntervalNumeric data onlynoyes
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 possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDatabase file passwordsnono

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