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DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
prometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
prometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyHuawei and openGauss communityMireo
Initial release20062014201920152020
Current release3.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaC, C++, JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL 2011noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)ShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes 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
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyes

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