DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

machbase.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Kyligence, Inc.

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

2013

1995

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V8.0, August 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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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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