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DBMS > Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.netwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20062011200920172009
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangyesno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, using Riak SecurityRole-based access controlno

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