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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityWidely used in-process key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSiteWhere
Initial release20142013201719942010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 201818.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnononoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancysimple rights management via user accountsnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Apache PhoenixInfluxDBIRONdbOracle Berkeley DBSiteWhere
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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