DBMS > Graphite vs. LeanXcale vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. LeanXcale vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

ToroDB 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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/torodb/server

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Chris Davis

LeanXcale

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

8Kdata

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2006

2015

2016

2012

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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