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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Hive vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnhive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopentsdb.net
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperEsgynApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20152012201320142011
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaGoJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsnono
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EsgynDBHiveInfluxDBLokiJSOpenTSDB
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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