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DBMS > Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 datasetsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.mireo.com/­spacetimespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperChris DavisMicrosoftMireoApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20062012202020141987
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFixed-grid hypercubesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Real-time block device replication (DRBD)noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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