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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Memcached vs. SingleStore vs. TigerGraph

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 cachingMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.memcached.orgwww.singlestore.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.singlestore.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperChris DavisDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSingleStore Inc.
Initial release2006200320132017
Current release1.6.29, June 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonCC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocolCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesRole-based access control

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