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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. PouchDB vs. Trino

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpouchdb.comtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbpouchdb.com/­guidestrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20002010201320122012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release2.7.6, April 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangGoJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
depending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backenddepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsnoSQL standard access control
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EXASOLIBM CloudantInfluxDBPouchDBTrino
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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