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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.ioprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftChris Davis
Initial release2010200620132015
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CPythonJavaGo
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesNumeric 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.nononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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 storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlno

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