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DBMS > Graphite vs. Linter vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Linter vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDBMS for high security requirementsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-weblinter.ruprometheus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioprometheus.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperChris Davisrelex.ruSiteWhere8Kdata
Initial release20061990201520102016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC and C++GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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