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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB vs. Riak TS

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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 BigTableDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20062008201320132015
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 20183.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
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, AVRONumeric data and Stringsyesno
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 indexesnonononorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavanonoErlang
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlno
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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