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DBMS > MaxDB vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. Teradata Aster

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsIndustry 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.Analytics Platform for Big DataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitemaxdb.sap.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Tobias OetikerSplunk Inc.Teradata
Initial release1984199920032005
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 possibleyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
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
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesR packages
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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