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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. RRDtool vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2005

1999

2012

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C

C

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

no

no

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

no

Secondary indexes

no

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

no

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

no

Triggers

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

no

no

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