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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. YottaDB

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIndustry 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.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperTobias OetikerSAP, SybaseYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB199919872001
Current release10 R1, October 20181.8.0, 202216.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
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
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCnoACIDoptimistic locking
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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