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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Tobias Oetiker
Initial release2017201320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1999
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaJavaScriptCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesNumeric 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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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