DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/spotify/heroic

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Chris Davis

Spotify

SAP

Mireo

Initial release

2006

2014

2015

2010

2020

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by Federation

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

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