OpenTSDB vs RRDtool

OpenTSDB

A scalable, distributed Time Series Database. (by OpenTSDB)

Distributed Databases

Source Code

opentsdb.net

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RRDtool

RRDtool 1.x - Round Robin Database (by oetiker)

Metric & Metric Collection Rrdtool round-robin-database time-series Tsdb

Source Code

rrdtool.org

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OpenTSDB		RRDtool
	Project
1	Mentions	5
4,947	Stars	965
0.3%	Growth	-
3.4	Activity	5.8
6 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Java	Language	C
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

OpenTSDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenTSDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.

Question: What is the Best Way to Store a ~10 Terabytes of Time Series Data?
2 projects | /r/bigdata | 6 Jan 2023

I like opentsdb. http://opentsdb.net/

RRDtool

Posts with mentions or reviews of RRDtool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-16.

Looking for a recommendation for RAID with 16-18 large (18TB) drives
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 11 Aug 2022

So if you value trends over spot values, why not try RRDtool or something equivalent (Kibana or Grafana)?
RRDtool 1.8.0 has been released
2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 16 Mar 2022

1 project | /r/rrdtool | 16 Mar 2022
RRDtool 1.8.0 has been released – Round Robin Database Tool – Supervision
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenTSDB and RRDtool you can also consider the following projects:

InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Apache Cassandra - Mirror of Apache Cassandra

Druid - Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.

Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system

Scylla - NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

Statsd - Daemon for easy but powerful stats aggregation