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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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1999

2000

2018

2003

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Prolog, Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

via file-system locks

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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