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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperRackspaceChris DavisMonetDB BVByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013200620042016
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
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
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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