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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. Sequoiadb

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperHazelcastGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20082013201320142013
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategynononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnononoJavaScript
Triggersyes infoEventsnonoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, 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 enginenoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlnosimple password-based access control
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HazelcastInfluxDBKairosDBLovefieldSequoiadb
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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