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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

prometheus.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2015

2013

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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