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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is 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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA multi-model DBMS and application serverOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.intersystems.comprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperThomas MuellerInterSystemsquasardb
Initial release20052013199720152009
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 20242018.1.4, May 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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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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