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DBMS > Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et al
Initial release2006201420102009 infounder the name LiveDB
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorization

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