DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Microsoft

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2010

2006

2016

2013

2021

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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