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DBMS > KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIndustry 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.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbobjectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedTobias OetikerSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2013201719991992
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native APIin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
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#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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