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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

1994

2014

2009

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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