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NameRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineIndustry 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.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#319  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
#17  RDF stores
Score3.02
Rank#107  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oxfordsemantic.techoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesTobias Oetiker
Initial release20171999
Current release6.0, Septermber 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
Java
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRoles, resources, and access typesno

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