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

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Chris Davis

CNRS

LeanXcale

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2006

2013

2015

2009

2000

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

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

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C
Java
Scala

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

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

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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