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DBMS > Graphite vs. Hive vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hive vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisperdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedoc.quasar.ai/­masterbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookquasardbByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2006201220092016
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducewith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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