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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Chris Davis

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2006

1984

2013

2014

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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