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DBMS > LokiJS vs. RRDtool vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. RRDtool vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSIndustry 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 storageA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolswaydb.simer.auwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperTobias OetikerSimer Plaha
Initial release2014199920182017
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric 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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared library
Pipes
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC 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++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole-based access control

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