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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCognitectIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122010201320142015
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 20173.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureErlangGoJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoErlang
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnoUsing read-only observersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsnono
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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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