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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL vs. TinkerGraph

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWell established RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsActian Corporation
Initial release201220131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current release2.7.6, April 202411.2, May 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoCCJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoMVCCyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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EJDBInfluxDBIngresPostgres-XLTinkerGraph
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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