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DBMS > Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. Rockset

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesnsdb.iorockset.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ionsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperChris DavisMicrosoftRockset
Initial release2006201220172019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedLinux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringdynamic 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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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