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DBMS > Graphite vs. H2 vs. Postgres-XL vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. H2 vs. Postgres-XL vs. YottaDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2database.comwww.postgres-xl.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisThomas MuellerYottaDB, LLC
Initial release200620052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2001
Current release2.2.220, July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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