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DBMS > RRDtool vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

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NameRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#138  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#339  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sequoiadb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperTobias OetikerSequoiadb Ltd.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release199920132018
Current release1.8.0, 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3
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++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
proprietary protocol using JSONOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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