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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hive vs. HyperSQL 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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

hive.apache.org

hsqldb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2006

2012

2001

2000

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

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

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
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

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, SQL

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

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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 for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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