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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandWidely used open source RDBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APINative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.mysql.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedev.mysql.com/­docwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Suninformationpartners gmbhApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20131984199520152014
Current release2.7.6, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 20198.4.0, April 20241.02.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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 possibleyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infoon the application serverJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginemultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InfluxDBInterbaseMySQLsearchxmlTrafodion
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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