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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Riak TS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2006

2015

2013

1987

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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