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System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine vs. SurrealDB

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NameRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sadasengine.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperTobias OetikerSADAS s.r.l.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release199920062022
Current release1.8.0, 20228.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++Rust
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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