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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. OrientDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitecachelot.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overvieworientdb.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20152008201420132010
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.7.6, April 20243.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaGoJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava, Javascript
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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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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