Re: [tkined] SNMP to SQL

From: Frank Harper (Frank.Harper@turbomeca.fr)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 17:48:36 MET

What I'm wondering, is why aren't people using RRDtool (round robin database).

I'm not an RRD expert, but I think it's highly optimized for just this kind of
time-series data... 

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Alexios Zavras wrote:

> Back in the discussion of putting SNMP data in databases,
> I'd like to ask a more fundamental question.
> Do people use SQL features ?  I mean "SQL" (structured queries)
> instead of just "Database" (store/get).
>
> I was working on the same path as people already mentioned here
> (collect with scotty, store in MySQL), when I realized that
> *for my needs* there was no gain in using an SQL database.
> I've since changed DBMS, and currently use berkeley db
> straight from Tcl.  This database just gives you a generic
> (key,data) structure, which of course can accommodate
> whatever you want to store.
>
> The major advantage, I think would come from a temporal database,
> since almost all of my data are associated with a timestamp.
> However, I haven't found one I can readily use (and I doubt
> there exists one).
>
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