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DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
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Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2006201420152014
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
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.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsno

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