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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.kinetica.com

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.kinetica.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Kinetica

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2013

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple password-based access control

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

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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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