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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. LevelDB vs. Memcached vs. Prometheus

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.memcached.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2006201120032015
Current release1.23, February 20211.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynonoNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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