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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Chris Davis

SiteWhere

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2006

2010

1987

2019

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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