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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. MonetDB vs. Prometheus

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.monetdb.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MonetDB BV
Initial release20162013201720042015
Current release2.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luayes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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BigchainDBInfluxDBIRONdbMonetDBPrometheus
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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