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DBMS > Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 H2M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperChris DavisSiteWhereAlex Kashirin
Initial release2006201320102020
Current release1.2.2, November 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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