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DBMS > Graphite vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PostGIS

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbpostgis.net
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.immudb.iolearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisCodenotaryMicrosoft
Initial release2006202020142005
Current release1.2.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infoJSON typesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersnonoJavaScriptyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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