Pixi vs StatsD

Pixi vs StatsD: What are the differences?

Developers describe Pixi as "Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer". Super fast HTML 5 2D rendering engine that uses webGL with canvas fallback. On the other hand, StatsD is detailed as "Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation". StatsD is a front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics server, originally written by Etsy's Erik Kastner. StatsD is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

Pixi and StatsD can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Pixi are:

• Multi-platform Support
• Interactive, visually compelling content on desktop, mobile and beyond, all reached with a single codebase to deliver transferable experiences
• Tinting & Blending Modes

On the other hand, StatsD provides the following key features:

• buckets: Each stat is in its own "bucket". They are not predefined anywhere. Buckets can be named anything that will translate to Graphite (periods make folders, etc)
• values: Each stat will have a value. How it is interpreted depends on modifiers. In general values should be integer.
• flush: After the flush interval timeout (defined by config.flushInterval, default 10 seconds), stats are aggregated and sent to an upstream backend service.

Pixi and StatsD are both open source tools. It seems that Pixi with 26.1K GitHub stars and 3.73K forks on GitHub has more adoption than StatsD with 14.2K GitHub stars and 1.84K GitHub forks.