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DBMS > Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS vs. Splice Machine

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2techfort.github.io/­LokiJSsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperChris DavisIBMSplice Machine
Initial release20061983 infohost version20142014
Current release12.1, October 20163.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JavaScript APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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