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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Speedb

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Industry 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.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#310  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisrocksdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperInterSystemsFacebook, Inc.Tobias OetikerSpeedb
Initial release2018201319992020
Current release2023.3, June 20239.4.0, June 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyno
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.yesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
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
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonono
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