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System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. TerminusDB vs. Ultipa vs. VelocityDB

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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.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

terminusdb.com

www.ultipa.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.ultipa.com/document

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

DataChemist Ltd.

Ultipa

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1999

2018

2019

2011

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library
Pipes

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

.Net

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

JavaScript
Python

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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