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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceMicrosoftQdrant
Initial release20152013201320142021
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoRust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON typesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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 indexesyesnonoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoJavaScript
TriggersnononoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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 engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelKey-based authentication
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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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