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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Ignite vs. InfluxDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SiteWhere

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignite.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewplanetscale.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbplanetscale.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyApache Software FoundationPlanetScaleSiteWhere
Initial release20142015201320202010
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetGoGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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HeroicIgniteInfluxDBPlanetScaleSiteWhere
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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