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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2017

1999

Current release

2.5, January 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

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

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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