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DBMS > NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry 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.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitensdb.iowww.pinecone.ioprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncTobias Oetiker
Initial release2017201920151999
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ScalaGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
hostedLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringString, Number, BooleanNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
Scala
Python.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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