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DBMS > Graphite vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.81
Rank#63  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#223  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.keydb.devdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperChris DavisEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release200620192017
Current release4.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlypartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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 indexesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access control and ACLyes
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