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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. openGauss vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

Amazon Web Services

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2010

2019

2021

2018

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V12

3.0, March 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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 (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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