DBMS > jBASE vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

sqream.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.sqream.com

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Tobias Oetiker

SQream Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

1991

1999

2017

Current release

5.7

1.8.0, 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

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

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

Numeric data only

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

in-process shared library
Pipes

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Temenos signs first customer in India
24 August 2009, Finextra

provided by Google News

SQLi vulnerability in Cacti could lead to RCE (CVE-2023-51448)
9 January 2024, Help Net Security

Critical IP spoofing bug patched in Cacti
15 December 2022, The Daily Swig

How to install Cacti SNMP Monitor on Ubuntu
24 November 2017, TechRepublic

The 16 Best Open Source Network Monitoring Tools in 2023
21 October 2022, Solutions Review

Cacti servers under attack by attackers exploiting CVE-2022-46169
16 January 2023, Help Net Security

provided by Google News

I SQream, you SQream, we all SQream for … data analytics?
5 October 2023, fierce-network.com

SQream Announces Strategic Integration for Powerful Big Data Analytics with Dataiku
9 February 2024, insideBIGDATA

SQream Joins Samsung Cloud Platform Ecosystem
26 July 2023, Datanami

GPU data warehouse startup SQream lands $39.4M funding round
24 June 2020, SiliconANGLE News

SQream Technologies raises $39.4 million for GPU-accelerated databases
24 June 2020, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

Share this page