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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. InfluxDB vs. JanusGraph vs. MaxDB vs. Prometheus

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewjanusgraph.orgmaxdb.sap.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.janusgraph.orgmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20052013201719842015
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.7.6, April 20240.6.3, February 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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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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