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DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Ignite vs. LokiJS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Ignite vs. LokiJS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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 ElasticSearchApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignite.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicapacheignite.readme.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyApache Software FoundationPercona
Initial release20062014201520142015
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.63.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++, Java, .NetJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes (replicated cache)noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights for users and roles

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