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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  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 metricsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpostgis.netwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperFatCloudScyllaDB
Initial release2012201320052015
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.4.2, February 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#GoCC++
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnouser defined functionsyes, Lua
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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FatDBInfluxDBPostGISScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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