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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. XTDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksKineticaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2013201320122019
Current release2.7.6, April 20247.1, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level
More information provided by the system vendor
DatabricksInfluxDBKineticaXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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InfluxData 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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