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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. Sequoiadb

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRiak 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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netquasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20112009201519992013
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binarynoNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes, limitednoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnoJavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnonosimple password-based access control

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