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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

kairosdb.github.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2006

2013

2021

2016

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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