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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. OpenEdge vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.progress.com/openedge

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Progress Software Corporation

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

1984

2017

2014

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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