DBMS > RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1999

2010

2018

2011

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

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

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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