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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. Prometheus vs. Speedb

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheprometheus.iowww.speedb.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisAlachisoftSpeedb
Initial release20062013200520152020
Current release2.7.6, April 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyNumeric data and Stringspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumeric 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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)nono
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GraphiteInfluxDBNCachePrometheusSpeedb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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