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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ittia.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rockset.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Chris Davis

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

2006

2007

2014

2019

Current release

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

yes

JSON types

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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