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DBMS > BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV vs. YottaDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20152013199420092001
Current release2.7.6, April 20244.4, October 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCErlangC
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
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
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
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesnoyes
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 enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnoyes, using Riak SecurityUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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BigObjectInfluxDBmSQL infoMini SQLRiak KVYottaDB
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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