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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Newts vs. OrientDB vs. RRDtool vs. Tigris

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)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.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtsorientdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPTobias OetikerTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20142014201019992022
Current release3.2.29, March 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared library
Pipes
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoJava, Javascriptnono
TriggersyesnoHooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoAccess rights for users and roles

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