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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.kinetica.com

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.kinetica.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Kinetica

SAP

Initial release

2013

2012

2017

2010

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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News

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