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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

prometheus.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

prometheus.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

2015

2014

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by Federation

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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