DBMS > KairosDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

1999

2010

1987

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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