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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graphite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Chris Davis

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2006

2011

Current release

GBase 8a

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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