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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. JSqlDb vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

jsqldb.org (offline)

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Konrad von Backstrom

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

2018

2019

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

dynamic typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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