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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. XTDB

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA 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
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webprometheus.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioprometheus.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Chris DavisJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2017200620152019
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaPythonGoClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlyyes, 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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby Federationyes, 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 Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnono

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