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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. RRDtool vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQream DB vs. Warp 10

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Industry 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.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.scylladb.comsqream.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.scylladb.comdocs.sqream.comwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperTobias OetikerScyllaDBSQream TechnologiesSenX
Initial release20131999201520172015
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infocluster global secondary indicesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
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
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Luauser defined functions in Pythonyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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