DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Kyligence, Inc.

Google

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

2013

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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