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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FatDB vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iohbase.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperRackspaceFatCloudApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2013201220082013
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.7.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumeric data and Strings
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC#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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accounts
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BluefloodFatDBHBaseInfluxDB
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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