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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GreptimeDB vs. Ignite

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#368	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

greptime.com

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.greptime.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Chris Davis

Greptime Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2006

2022

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Rust

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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