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DBMS > BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Qdrant vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Qdrant vs. Riak KV

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewplanetscale.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbplanetscale.com/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.PlanetScaleQdrantOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152013202020212009
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoGoRustErlang
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 infothrough Homebrew
Docker
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.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
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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 proceduresLuanoyes infoproprietary syntaxErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesKey-based authenticationyes, using Riak Security
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectInfluxDBPlanetScaleQdrantRiak KV
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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