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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

SiteWhere

Initial release

2006

2013

2021

2010

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

predefined scheme

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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