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DBMS > Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmanticoresearch.comwww.memcached.orgopentsdb.netwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisManticore SoftwareDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20062017200320112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.0, February 20231.6.27, May 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++CJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.noCan index from XMLnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.noyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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