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System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. RRDtool vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

quasar.ai

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

quasardb

Tobias Oetiker

Transwarp

Initial release

2009

1999

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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