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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion vs. WakandaDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldtrafodion.apache.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWakanda SAS
Initial release20182013201420142012
Current release0.10, February 20242.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 20172.3.0, February 20192.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaScriptC++, JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesno
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Proceduresyes
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneyes, via HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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DuckDBInfluxDBLovefieldTrafodionWakandaDB
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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