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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. LevelDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroickairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyGoogle
Initial release20062008201420132011
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 20181.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesno
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access controlno

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