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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Citus vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.citusdata.comhbase.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-db
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.citusdata.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoft
Initial release20132010200820132014
Current release8.1, December 20182.3.4, January 20212.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON types
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJavaScript
TriggersnoyesyesnoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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