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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyBaiduGoogle
Initial release20062014201820132011
Current release0.92.7.6, April 20241.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesNumeric data and Stringsno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionssimple rights management via user accountsno
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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