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DBMS > Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. Titan

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIndustry 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.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitequasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2009200919992012
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binarynoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
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
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnoyes
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak SecuritynoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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