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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Kdb vs. OushuDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsHigh performance Time Series DBMSA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewkx.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbcode.kx.comwww.oushu.com/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFatCloudKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOushuApache Software Foundation
Initial release201220132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.6, May 20184.0.1, August 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#GoqScala
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)Full-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnoyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioningyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsKerberos, SSL and role based accessno
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FatDBInfluxDBKdbOushuDBSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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