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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#283  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperRackspaceChris DavisCirconus LLC.LeanXcale
Initial release2013200620172015
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Lua
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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