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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. QuestDB vs. RRDtool vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. XTDB

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIndustry 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 high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#192  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsquestdb.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiquestdb.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupQuestDB Technology IncTobias OetikerTencentJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142014199920132019
Current release1.8.0, 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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