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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. YDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 CouchDBMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Relational 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
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorientdb.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPYandex
Initial release2006201020102019
Current release3.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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 SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptno
TriggersnoyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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