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DBMS > PlanetScale vs. Prometheus vs. ReductStore vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison PlanetScale vs. Prometheus vs. ReductStore vs. RRDtool

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NamePlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonReductStore  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDesigned to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.Industry 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#384  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteplanetscale.comprometheus.iogithub.com/­reductstore
www.reduct.store
oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationplanetscale.com/­docsprometheus.io/­docswww.reduct.store/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperPlanetScaleReductStore LLCTobias Oetiker
Initial release2020201520231999
Current release1.9, March 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBusiness Source License 1.1Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoC++, RustC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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.no infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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 proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
nonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at shard levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnono

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