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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

machbase.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Chris Davis

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2006

2013

1994

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

ACID

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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