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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Realm vs. Tarantool

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrealm.iowww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrealm.io/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperEmbarcaderoGoogleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019VK
Initial release20131984201420142008
Current release2.7.6, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 20172.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocol
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
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryLua, C and SQL stored procedures
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyes infoChange Listenersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenonenoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyInterbase Change ViewsnonenoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infousing MemoryDByes infoIn-Memory realmyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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InfluxDBInterbaseLovefieldRealmTarantool
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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