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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Warp 10 vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.warp10.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Chris Davis

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SenX

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2006

2010

2015

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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