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DBMS > Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph vs. Sequoiadb

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webboilerbay.commemgraph.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmemgraph.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperChris DavisBoiler Bay Inc.Memgraph LtdSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2006200220172013
Current release4.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScript
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infowith snapshot isolationDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers, roles and permissionssimple password-based access control
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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