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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
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Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogleRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122013201419932014
Current release2.7.5, January 20242.1.12, February 20173.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP 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
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDByes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
More information provided by the system vendor
EJDBInfluxDBLovefieldOpenQM infoalso called QMQuestDB
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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