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DBMS > Graphite vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS vs. Spark SQL

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperChris DavisIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2006200520142014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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 infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnono

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