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System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VelocityDB

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NameRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score3.47
Rank#93  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolterminusdb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatavelocitydb.com
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatavelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperTobias OetikerDataChemist Ltd.Rocket SoftwareVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1999201819852011
Current release1.8.0, 202211.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableProlog, RustCC#
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesoptionalyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.Net
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
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoU2 BasicCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneGraph PartitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedBased on Windows Authentication

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