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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite vs. Valentina Server

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sqlite.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperExasolGigaspaces TechnologiesDwayne Richard HippParadigma Software
Initial release20002000201320001999
Current release15.5, September 20202.7.6, April 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonoyes
Triggersyesyes, event driven architecturenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EXASOLGigaSpacesInfluxDBSQLiteValentina Server
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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