DBMS > RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

sphinxsearch.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

1999

2001

2020

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

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

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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