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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. KairosDB vs. MariaDB vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

kairosdb.github.io

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

Initial release

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2003

2007

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

11.3.2, February 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

based on Cassandra

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

optionally

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

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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Specific characteristics

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