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DBMS > Graphite vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperChris DavisOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20062014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200920201987
Current release10 R1, October 20183.2.0, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCErlangC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
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#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsErlangnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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