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DBMS > EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Titan

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSoftmotionsSiteWhereAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2012201320102012
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
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
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on HBaseyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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EJDBInfluxDBSiteWhereTitan
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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