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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB vs. TDengine

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Industry 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 GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsqream.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.sqream.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Tobias OetikerSQream TechnologiesTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2009199920172019
Current release2.4.1, August 20201.8.0, 20222022.1.6, December 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions in Pythonno
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
RethinkDBRRDtoolSQream DBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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