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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webobjectbox.ioprometheus.iowww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperChris DavisObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2006201720152014
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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