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DBMS > BaseX vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHChris DavisToshiba CorporationVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2007200620132018
Current release11.0, June 20245.1, August 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
BaseXGraphiteGridDBVictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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