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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Microsoft

Chris Davis

Spotify

Mireo

Yanza

Initial release

2010

2006

2014

2020

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Unix

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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