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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webprometheus.ioquestdb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisQuestDB Technology IncAlex Kashirin
Initial release2006201520142020
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlyyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono
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