DBMS > LokiJS vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

Apache Software Foundation

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

1999

2014

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

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

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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