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DBMS > Graphite vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbtempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlkairosdb.github.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperChris DavisThomas MuellerTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20062005201320122018
Current release2.2.220, July 20231.2.2, November 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlsimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control

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