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DBMS > Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iodocs.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperChris DavisOxford Semantic TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release2006201320172014
Current release1.2.2, November 20186.0, Septermber 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrareplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlRoles, resources, and access typesno

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