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System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. SurrealDB vs. TDengine vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platformDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.comdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperTobias OetikerSurrealDB LtdTDEngine, previously Taos DataTranswarp
Initial release199920222019
Current release1.8.0, 2022v1.5.0, May 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableRustC
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP 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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes
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RRDtoolSurrealDBTDengineTranswarp ArgoDB
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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