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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Ultipa

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.GoogleUltipa
Initial release20062010201520142019
Current release3.3 July 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
TriggersnoyesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsno

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