DBMS > Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Spatial extension of H2

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.h2gis.org

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Chris Davis

CNRS

LeanXcale

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Initial release

2006

2013

2015

2021

2009

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C
Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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