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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. MaxDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.exasol.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/maxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsExasolCirconus LLC.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20122000201320171984
Current release2.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20187.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes, in Luayes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EJDBEXASOLInfluxDBIRONdbMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D
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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