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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. JSqlDb vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#338	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	29.22
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.52
Rank	#83	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.timescale.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Timescale

Initial release

2015

2013

2018

2017

Current release

2.0.8, August 2021

0.8, December 2018

2.6.0, February 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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TimescaleDB is purpose-built to scale and handle time-series data workloads and is...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Fastest growing database to drive 23,500 GitHub stars Over 600,000 daily active instances
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With over 12,700 GitHub stars and growing, 1,000,000 active databases, and an active...
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Licensing and pricing models

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