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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. RethinkDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. RethinkDB vs. ToroDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 WhisperDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iorethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftChris DavisThe Linux Foundation infosince July 20178Kdata
Initial release2010200620092016
Current release2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CPythonC++Java
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and roles

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