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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCloud-based data warehousing serviceLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.objectbox.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperChris DavisIBMObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2006201420172014
Current release4.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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