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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SwayDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.marklogic.comwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.marklogic.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release20132001200320162018
Current release2.7.6, April 202411.0, December 20221.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++CC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92noyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBMarkLogicMemcachedMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSwayDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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