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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. PlanetScale

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsPlanetScale
Initial release2015201220132020
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageCGoGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectEJDBInfluxDBPlanetScale
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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