DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Yanza

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

InterSystems

Tobias Oetiker

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Yanza

Initial release

1997

1999

2020

1987

2015

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.8.0, 2022

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

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

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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