DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Graphite vs. OpenQM vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Graphite vs. OpenQM vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Chris Davis

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2006

1993

2015

2020

Current release

3.4-12

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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