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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HBase vs. Ignite vs. Riak KV vs. Valentina Server

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 BigTableApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orgignite.apache.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesParadigma Software
Initial release20062008201520091999
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Apache Ignite 2.63.2.0, December 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++, Java, .NetErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Erlangyes
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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