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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. MaxDB vs. RavenDB vs. Spark SQL vs. StarRocks

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmaxdb.sap.comravendb.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationravendb.net/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Hibernating RhinosApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20131984201020142020
Current release2.7.6, April 20247.9.10.12, February 20245.4, July 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C#ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
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
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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InfluxDBMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DRavenDBSpark SQLStarRocks
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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