DBMS > Axibase vs. Graphite vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Graphite vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Chris Davis

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2006

2009

2011

Current release

15585

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

Numeric data only

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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