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

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Netezza vs. Quasardb vs. Tkrzw

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA 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 modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignite.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaquasar.aidbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software FoundationIBMquasardbMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20062015200020092020
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.63.14.1, January 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, Java, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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