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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. Prometheus

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncChris DavisCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20182006201420142015
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnoNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
nonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsnononono

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