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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. MongoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.mongodb.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Chris Davis

MongoDB, Inc

Oracle

Percona

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2006

2009

2007

2015

2009

Current release

7.0.5, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

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