DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Infobright vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Infobright vs. ScyllaDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.ScyllaDB
Initial release20122004201320052015
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.6, April 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Scylla Cloud: Create real-time applications that run at global scale with Scylla Cloud, the industry’s most powerful NoSQL DBaaS
Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users can be defined per object
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DruidGBaseInfluxDBInfobrightScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
» more
Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
» more
Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
» more
Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
» more
Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
» more
News

An Introductory Guide to Grafana Alerts
16 May 2024

What to Expect When You’re Expecting InfluxDB: A Guide
14 May 2024

Introduction to Apache Iceberg
9 May 2024

Converting Timestamp to Date in Java
7 May 2024

A Detailed Guide to C# TimeSpan
2 May 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache DruidGBaseInfluxDBInfobrightScyllaDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Druid Wins Best Big Data Product in the 2023 BigDATAwire Readers' Choice Awards
26 January 2024, Datanami

'Lucifer' Botnet Turns Up the Heat on Apache Hadoop Servers
21 February 2024, Dark Reading

New DDoS malware Attacking Apache Hadoop, & Druid Servers
26 February 2024, GBHackers

Imply Data gives Apache Druid schema auto-discover capability
6 June 2023, SiliconANGLE News

Imply Announces Automatic Schema Discovery for Apache Druid, Reinforcing Druid's Leadership for Real-Time ...
6 June 2023, Business Wire

provided by Google News

Run and manage open source InfluxDB databases with Amazon Timestream | Amazon Web Services
14 March 2024, AWS Blog

Amazon Timestream: Managed InfluxDB for Time Series Data
14 March 2024, The New Stack

InfluxData Collaborating with AWS to Bring InfluxDB and Time Series Analytics to Developers Around the World
14 March 2024, Business Wire

How the FDAP Stack Gives InfluxDB 3.0 Real-Time Speed, Efficiency
15 March 2024, Datanami

AWS and InfluxData partner to offer managed time series database Timestream for InfluxDB
5 April 2024, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla
26 April 2024, InfoQ.com

ScyllaDB Raises $43M to Take on MongoDB at Scale, Push Database Performance to New Levels
17 October 2023, Datanami

ScyllaDB on AWS is a NoSQL Database Built for Gigabyte-to-Petabyte Scale | Amazon Web Services
6 January 2023, AWS Blog

Scylla vs Cassandra: Performance Comparison - DataScienceCentral.com
9 January 2020, Data Science Central

Scylla review: Apache Cassandra supercharged
18 December 2019, InfoWorld

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here