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DBMS > Graphite vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridGain vs. Hazelcast vs. InfluxDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA widely adopted in-memory data gridDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.gridgain.comhazelcast.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperChris DavisGridGain Systems, Inc.Hazelcast
Initial release2006200720082013
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.3.6, November 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.noyesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
GraphiteGridGainHazelcastInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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