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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. RRDtool

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIndustry 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-weboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftChris DavisTobias Oetiker
Initial release2015201020061999
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CPythonC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higher.NETLinux
Unix
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C 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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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