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DBMS > RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl vs. Transbase

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NameRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAnalytics Platform for Big DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.splunk.comsqrrl.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperTobias OetikerApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release19992014200320121987
Current release1.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
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
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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