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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kdb vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance Time Series DBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVIndustry 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.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbkx.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iocode.kx.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias Oetiker
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320151999
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.6, May 20183.0.0, September 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaqErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data only
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.noyesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'restrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)yes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlrights management via user accountsnono
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KairosDBKdbRiak TSRRDtool
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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