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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	7.39
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	21.54
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Transwarp

Initial release

2018

2013

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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DB-Engines blog posts

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