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DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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 ElasticSearchOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicprometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyMireo
Initial release20062014201520202023
Current release1.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesNumeric data onlyyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoby FederationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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