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DBMS > Oracle Rdb vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustry 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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Tobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.Teradata
Initial release19841999200120052017
Current release7.4.1.1, 20211.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C++
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSHP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC 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++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoR packagesyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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