DBMS > Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB

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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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Chris Davis

Google

SAP

Cesbit

Initial release

2006

2014

2010

2017

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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