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DBMS > Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 CouchDBWidely used open source RDBMSOpen Source Time Series DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.mysql.comsiridb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.siridb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunCesbitApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20062010199520172014
Current release8.4.0, April 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC and C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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