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DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmaxdb.sap.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifySAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2006201419842009
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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