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DBMS > Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool vs. YottaDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry 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.A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteprometheus.iorockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolyottadb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsdocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperRocksetTobias OetikerYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2015201919992001
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlydynamic typingNumeric data onlyno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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 controlnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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