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DBMS > Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisCirconus LLC.KineticaRobert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2006201720122009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C, C++C#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole based authorizationno

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