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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iographite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.io
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Chris Davis
Initial release201520062013
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access control

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