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DBMS > H2 vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. TempoIQ vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. TempoIQ vs. YottaDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewtempoiq.com (offline)yottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperThomas MuellerSpotifyTempoIQYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20052014201320122001
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountssimple authentication-based access controlUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
More information provided by the system vendor
H2HeroicInfluxDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBYottaDB
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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