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DBMS > jBASE vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareIndustry 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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#344  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Tobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release199119992001
Current release5.71.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalNumeric data onlynoyes
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.yesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C 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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnonoyes

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