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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. MariaDB vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.stardog.com

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

SAP, Sybase

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

1987

2010

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

11.3.2, February 2024

16.0

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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