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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiteWhere

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApache 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 metricsRDBMS for high security requirementsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewlinter.ruwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundationrelex.ruSequoiadb Ltd.SiteWhere
Initial release20152013199020132010
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetGoC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP 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
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLJavaScript
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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