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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
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Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2database.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-db
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperMicrosoftChris DavisThomas MuellerMicrosoft
Initial release20102006200520132014
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation language.NET and CPythonJavaGo
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON types
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJavaScript
TriggersnonoyesnoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityGraphiteH2InfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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