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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HarperDB vs. Ignite vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Apache 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 Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.harperdb.ioignite.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.harperdb.io/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docskairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperChris DavisHarperDBApache Software Foundation
Initial release20062017201520132014
Current release3.1, August 2021Apache Ignite 2.61.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonNode.jsC++, Java, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infoJSON data typesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access controlno

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