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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Chris Davis

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2006

1995

2009

2018

2008

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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