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DBMS > KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIndustry 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 databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperTobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19992001
Current release1.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 20181.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric 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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
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 proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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