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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

objectbox.io

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2006

2014

2017

2011

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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