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DBMS > Graphite vs. HBase vs. SiteWhere vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HBase vs. SiteWhere vs. XTDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 BigTableM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument 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
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSiteWhereJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2006200820102019
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possiblepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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