DBMS > InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store

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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.intersystems.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

1997

2014

2012

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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