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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. Prometheus vs. TerarkDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignite.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comprometheus.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comprometheus.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software FoundationKineticaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20062015201220152016
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, Java, .NetC, C++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.noyesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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