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DBMS > MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. Tigris vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. Tigris vs. Transbase

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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVIndustry 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.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.mysql.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.tigrisdata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.tigrisdata.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerTigris Data, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release19952015199920221987
Current release8.4.0, April 20243.0.0, September 20221.8.0, 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric 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.yesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes, limitednonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxErlangnonoyes
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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