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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. InfluxDB vs. ITTIA vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.ittia.com

prometheus.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

ITTIA L.L.C.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

2013

2007

2015

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

Numeric data and Strings

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

Numeric data only

yes

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Database file passwords

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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