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DBMS > Graphite vs. GridGain vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridGain vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 IgniteMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.gridgain.commanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperChris DavisGridGain Systems, Inc.Manticore Softwarequasardb
Initial release2006200720172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.16.0, February 202310 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Synchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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