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System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. XTDB

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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.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sql.js.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

Alessandro Furieri

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2008

2012

2019

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C++

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library
Pipes

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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