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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2013

2003

2010

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.29, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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