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

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

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationPlatform 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 DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational 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
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.stardog.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.stardog.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Tobias OetikerStardog-UnionTeradata
Initial release19841999201020052017
Current release7.4.1.1, 20211.8.0, 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJavaC++
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSHP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible 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 onlyyesyesyes
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 possibleno infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServeryesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.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
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaR packagesyes
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes 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 in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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