DBMS > Graphite vs. Infobright vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Infobright vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

RDBMS for high security requirements

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

linter.ru

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

relex.ru

SiteWhere

8Kdata

Initial release

2006

2005

1990

2010

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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