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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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.

Primary database model

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2014

2011

2013

1999

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

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

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

Numeric data only

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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