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DBMS > Graphite vs. GridDB vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridDB vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperChris DavisToshiba CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2006201320132003
Current release5.1, August 20221.2.2, November 20181.6.29, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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