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System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. SiriDB vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

siridb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.siridb.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

Cesbit

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1999

2017

2016

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted open source version available

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++

Server operating systems

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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