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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. jBASE vs. SQLite

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Spotify

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2006

2014

1991

2000

Current release

5.7

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

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

via file-system locks

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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