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DBMS > EJDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. QuestDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsSpotifyHypertable Inc.QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122014200920132014
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoNumeric 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID for single-table writes
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accounts
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EJDBHeroicHypertableInfluxDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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