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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Newts vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Chris Davis

OpenNMS Group

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2006

2014

2020

2018

Current release

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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