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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Widely used open source RDBMS

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.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.mysql.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tobias Oetiker

SenX

Initial release

1984

1995

1999

2015

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.3.0, January 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

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

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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