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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

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

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

Developer

Chris Davis

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Transwarp

Initial release

2006

2014

2009

2011

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

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"

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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