DBMS > Graphite vs. GridGain vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridGain vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.gridgain.com

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Chris Davis

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Google

Microsoft

SenX

Initial release

2006

2007

2011

2014

2015

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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