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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Access vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 frontendMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SC
Initial release20062005199220142011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.0.8, September 2015
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 2016commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesno

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