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DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsopentsdb.netpouchdb.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsApache Software FoundationCesbit
Initial release20132016201120122017
Current release2.7.6, April 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyes infoNumeric data
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsyesnonosimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOpenTSDBPouchDBSiriDB
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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