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DBMS > RRDtool vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL vs. TinkerGraph

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NameRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherespark.apache.org/­sqltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperTobias OetikerSiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release1999201020142009
Current release1.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono

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