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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GreptimeDB vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

greptime.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.greptime.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

Greptime Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2006

2022

2013

2020

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

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

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