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DBMS > Graphite vs. mSQL vs. OushuDB vs. PostgreSQL

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. mSQL vs. OushuDB vs. PostgreSQL

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhispermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.oushu.com/­documentationwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisHughes TechnologiesOushuPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release200619941989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release4.4, October 20214.0.1, August 202016.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyespartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingnoyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoKerberos, SSL and role based accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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