DBMS > Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Netezza vs. OpenSearch vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Netezza vs. OpenSearch 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.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

ignite.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2006

2015

2000

2021

2020

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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