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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. XTDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iowww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Chris DavisJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2016200620132019
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnosimple password-based access control

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