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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TDengine

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SpotifySAP, formerly SybaseTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20042014201319942019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.6, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 20193.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
GBaseHeroicInfluxDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTDengine
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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