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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

help.sap.com/hana

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

SAP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2014

2010

2019

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

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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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News

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