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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FeatureBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Ingres vs. Riak KV

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWell established RDBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.featurebase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.featurebase.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Molecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsActian CorporationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2015201720131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2009
Current release2022, May 20222.7.6, April 202411.2, May 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoCErlang
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL queriesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesErlang
Triggersnononoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security
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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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