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DBMS > LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseIndustry 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.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.54
Rank#98  Overall
#17  Key-value stores
Score2.32
Rank#132  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#107  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbopentsdb.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­master/­doc/­index.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTobias Oetiker
Initial release201120111999
Current release1.23, February 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data only
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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