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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2018

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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