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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. RRDtool vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Industry 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.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Tobias OetikerSimer PlahaTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release1999199920182019
Current releaseV8.0, August 20211.8.0, 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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.yesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
KingbaseRRDtoolSwayDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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