DBMS > Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2013

2015

2006

2013

2010

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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