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DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 high performance open source SQL database for time series dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyQuestDB Technology IncSiteWhere
Initial release2006201420142010
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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GraphiteHeroicQuestDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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