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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. LevelDB vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/google/leveldb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

Google

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2011

1994

2013

Current release

1.23, February 2021

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

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