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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	29.15
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#223	Overall
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Score	50.84
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

SAP

Initial release

2013

2010

Current release

2.5.1, November 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS06 (March 4, 2022), March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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