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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsEmbarcaderoSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19992012201319842013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageJavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control
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AltibaseApache DruidInfluxDBInterbaseSequoiadb
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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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