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System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Hive vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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NameBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitebrytlyt.iohive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-db
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperBrytlytApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoft
Initial release20162012201320132014
Current release5.0, August 20233.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes 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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoJavaScript
TriggersyesnononoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoMulti-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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlAccess 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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