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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2006

2017

2013

2011

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (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
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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