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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 HBaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release200620112019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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