DBMS > Netezza vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.siridb.com

Developer

IBM

Tobias Oetiker

Sybase, SAP

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2000

1999

1993

2017

2020

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library
Pipes

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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