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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. InfluxDB vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014200620132019
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonGoClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyNumeric data and Stringsyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accounts
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AlaSQLGraphiteInfluxDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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