Graphite vs OpenTSDB

Overview

Graphite

Stacks383

Followers419

Votes42

GitHub Stars6.0K

Forks1.3K

OpenTSDB

Stacks32

Followers75

Votes0

GitHub Stars5.1K

Forks1.2K

Graphite vs OpenTSDB: What are the differences?

What is Graphite? A highly scalable real-time graphing system. Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand.

What is OpenTSDB? A scalable time series database. It is a distributed, scalable time series database to store, index & serve metrics collected from computer systems at a large scale. It can store and serve massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.

Graphite belongs to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack, while OpenTSDB can be primarily classified under "Databases".

Graphite and OpenTSDB are both open source tools. It seems that Graphite with 4.63K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than OpenTSDB with 3.81K GitHub stars and 1.11K GitHub forks.

Uber Technologies, Twitch, and hike are some of the popular companies that use Graphite, whereas OpenTSDB is used by Cloudinsight, SAYMON, and Server Density. Graphite has a broader approval, being mentioned in 117 company stacks & 148 developers stacks; compared to OpenTSDB, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Jul 28, 2020

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Detailed Comparison

Graphite	OpenTSDB
Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand	It is a distributed, scalable time series database to store, index & serve metrics collected from computer systems at a large scale. It can store and serve massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
carbon - a Twisted daemon that listens for time-series data;whisper - a simple database library for storing time-series data (similar in design to RRD);graphite webapp - A Django webapp that renders graphs on-demand using Cairo	Store and serve massive amounts of time series data; Scalable
Statistics
GitHub Stars 6.0K	GitHub Stars 5.1K
GitHub Forks 1.3K	GitHub Forks 1.2K
Stacks 383	Stacks 32
Followers 419	Followers 75
Votes 42	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 16 Render any graph 9 Great functions to apply on timeseries 8 Well supported integrations 6 Includes event tracking 3 Rolling aggregation makes storage managable	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Sensu Nagios Logstash Windows Server Netdata Riemann Diamond Telegraf collectd Ganglia	Grafana HBase

What are some alternatives to Graphite, OpenTSDB?

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

MySQL

The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft® SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.

SQLite

SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and views, is contained in a single disk file.

Cassandra

Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.

Memcached

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

MariaDB

Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.

Grafana

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

RethinkDB

RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.