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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.mysql.com

siridb.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.siridb.com

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Chris Davis

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Cesbit

Teradata

Initial release

2006

2017

1995

2017

1984

Current release

2.0

8.4.0, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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