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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWell established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netrockset.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperChris DavisActian CorporationRockset
Initial release20061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20052019
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesdynamic typing
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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