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DBMS > Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. YDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA relational database management system that stores data in columnsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.monetdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisMonetDB BVYandex
Initial release200620042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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