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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hsqldb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2023200120131994
Current release1.0, March 20232.7.2, June 20232.7.6, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesNumeric 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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava, SQLnoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
DragonflyHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBInfluxDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
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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