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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. MariaDB vs. Trino vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

trino.io

typedb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

typedb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Trino Software Foundation

Vaticle

Initial release

2010

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2016

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

11.3.2, February 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.

Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.

Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

depending on connected data-source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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