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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Community supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20052014201020132014
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data and Stringsno
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsno
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GreenplumHawkular MetricsIBM CloudantInfluxDBLokiJS
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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