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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. RRDtool vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.scylladb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperTobias OetikerScyllaDBSphinx Technologies Inc.SenX
Initial release20131999201520012015
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen 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++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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 indicesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
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
Proprietary protocolHTTP 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++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Luanoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding 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 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 operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 objectnoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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KairosDBRRDtoolScyllaDBSphinxWarp 10
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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