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DBMS > Graphite vs. Infobright vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Infobright vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 frontendOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbprometheus.ioquasar.aiwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperChris DavisIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.quasardbSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20062005201520092006
Current release3.14.1, January 20248.0
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 Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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