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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridDB vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used open source RDBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

griddb.net

www.jaguardb.com

www.mysql.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.griddb.net

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Chris Davis

Toshiba Corporation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2006

2013

2015

1995

1999

Current release

5.1, August 2022

3.3 July 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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