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DBMS > Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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 CouchDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, formerly SybaseCesbit
Initial release2006201019942017
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes infoNumeric data
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 SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
SAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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