DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > BigObject vs. CrateDB vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. CrateDB vs. HugeGraph vs. InfluxDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed Database based on LuceneA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#18  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#340  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocratedb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocratedb.com/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CrateBaidu
Initial release2015201320182013
Current release0.92.7.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languages.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions (Javascript)asynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsUsers, roles and permissionssimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectCrateDBHugeGraphInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
» more
InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
» more
Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
» more
IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
» more
InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
» more
Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
» more
Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
News

Time Series, InfluxDB, and Vector Databases
26 March 2024

Machine Learning and Infrastructure Monitoring: Tools and Justification
20 March 2024

Making Most Recent Value Queries Hundreds of Times Faster
18 March 2024

Telegraf 1.30 Release Notes
15 March 2024

Tale of the Tape: Data Historians vs Time Series Databases
13 March 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
BigObjectCrateDBHugeGraphInfluxDB
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

CrateDB Partners with HiveMQ to Deliver a Seamless Data Management Architecture for IoT
25 March 2024, PR Newswire

CrateDB Appoints Sergey Gerasimenko as New CTO
19 February 2024, PR Newswire

How We Designed CrateDB as a Realtime SQL DBMS for the Internet of Things
29 August 2017, The New Stack

Real-Time Analytics Database Company CrateDB Names Lars Färnström as New CEO
1 March 2023, Business Wire

CrateDB 4.5 takes distributed SQL database open source
24 March 2021, TechTarget

provided by Google News

全面升级!Apache HugeGraph 1.2.0版本发布原创
27 February 2024, CSDN

HugeGraph 部署和Hubble1.0.0的数据导入Bug修复_hugegraph-hubble导入数据
18 October 2023, CSDN

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

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

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

How Apache Arrow accelerates InfluxDB
21 November 2023, InfoWorld

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

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

Milvus logo

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

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

AllegroGraph logo

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

Present your product here