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DBMS > Graphite vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 requirementsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-weblinter.rugithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperChris Davisrelex.ruOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhere8Kdata
Initial release20061990200920102016
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++ErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLErlang
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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