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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ vs. ScyllaDB vs. Trafodion

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.scylladb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.scylladb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftSAP, formerly SybaseScyllaDBApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132014199420152014
Current release2.7.6, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON typesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
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
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyesyes, LuaJava Stored Procedures
TriggersnoJavaScriptyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSAP/Sybase Replication Serverselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
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 enginenoyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQScyllaDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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