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DBMS > Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Yanza vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Yanza vs. YDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry 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.Time Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websiteprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolyanza.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperTobias OetikerYanzaYandex
Initial release2015199920152019
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlynoyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
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
any language that supports HTTP callsGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationnonenoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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