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DBMS > Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. Rockset

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserockset.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.rockset.com
DeveloperChris DavisCirconus LLC.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Rockset
Initial release2006201719912019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20185.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptionaldynamic typing
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.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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