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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

RDBMS for high security requirements

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

linter.ru

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Chris Davis

relex.ru

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2006

1990

2009

2013

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Erlang

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

simple password-based access control

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