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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.snowflake.comswaydb.simer.auyanza.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperChris Davisinformationpartners gmbhSnowflake Computing Inc.Simer PlahaYanza
Initial release20062015201420182015
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languagePythonC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
WindowshostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesnono
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application serveruser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnono

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