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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
RDF store

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2003

2014

2018

2011

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

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

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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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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