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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sequoiadb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

1984

2011

2013

2000

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.23, February 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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