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DBMS > Graphite vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Infobright vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 frontendA 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 methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iorealm.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20062005201420112022
Current release4.0.8, September 2015v1.5.0, May 2024
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 infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC#Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 insteadyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
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 integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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