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DBMS > Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. NSDb vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. NSDb vs. SpaceTime

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webnsdb.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperChris DavisHypertable Inc.Mireo
Initial release2006200920172020
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
C++ API
Thrift
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes

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