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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hazelcast.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

Hazelcast

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2008

2013

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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