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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 capabilitiesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.leanxcale.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperRackspaceChris DavisCirconus LLC.LeanXcale
Initial release20132006201720152009
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
TinkerPop 3
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
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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