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DBMS > Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 simplicityA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopensearch.org/­docs/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperChris DavisCirconus LLC.Amazon Web ServicesSiteWhere
Initial release2006201720212010
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luayes
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
GraphiteIRONdbOpenSearchSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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