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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerarkDB vs. Ultipa

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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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Chris Davis

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Ultipa

Initial release

2006

2014

2016

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

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

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

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP 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++
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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