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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. KeyDB vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
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 metricsAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
google.github.io/­lovefieldprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Google
Initial release20052013201920142015
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringspartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesNumeric 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.nonononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoLuanono
TriggersyesnonoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnoneSharding
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 onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access control and ACLnono
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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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