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DBMS > Graphite vs. Informix vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Informix vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opentsdb.netwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Circonus LLC.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20061984201720112017
Current release14.10.FC5, November 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and JavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnonoRole-based access control

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