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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry 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.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperRocksetTobias OetikerTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2013201919991987
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingNumeric 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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesnoneSource-replica replication
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
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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