DBMS > Graphite vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

ignite.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

InterSystems

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2006

2015

2018

2014

2020

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2023.3, June 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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