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DBMS > Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 columnsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperChris DavisMonetDB BVSiteWhereSTS Soft SC
Initial release2006200420102011
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonCJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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