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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Solr

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperChris DavisDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2006200319842006
Current release1.6.25, March 20247.4.1.1, 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP Open VMSAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocolJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava plugins
Triggersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes

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