DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

opentsdb.net

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Cesbit

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2011

1999

2010

2017

2009

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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