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DBMS > Graphite vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Valentina Server

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 BigTableMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetManticore SoftwareParadigma Software
Initial release2006200820172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1999
Current release2.3.4, January 20216.0, February 202310 R1, October 20185.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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