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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

maxdb.sap.com

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

1984

2012

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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