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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBOracleQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SC
Initial release20052013200720142011
Current release14, December 20212.7.6, April 202414.1, August 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nononono
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurableACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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EDB PostgresInfluxDBOracle CoherenceQuestDBSTSdb
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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