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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. TempoIQ

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIndustry 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.Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooltempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerTempoIQ
Initial release2004200919992012
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.0, December 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
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 infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RErlangnono
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securitynosimple authentication-based access control

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