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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. InfluxDB vs. searchxml

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.40
Rank#103  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score31.27
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#404  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developerinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201820132015
Current release0.2, August 20202.7.1, April 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric 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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
More information provided by the system vendor
DuckDBInfluxDBsearchxml
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 25,500 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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