DBMS > Linter vs. Memcached vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Linter vs. Memcached vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

linter.ru

www.memcached.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

relex.ru

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Initial release

1990

2003

1999

2010

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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