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DBMS > Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

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NameOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen-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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTobias OetikerSiteWhere
Initial release1994201519992010
Current release18.1.40, May 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlyyes
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.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
Triggersyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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