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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.compouchdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201320162009 infounder the name LiveDB20122018
Current release2.7.6, April 20247.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++C#JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript 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
C#
Java
PHP
.NetJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsdepending on modelnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsyesRole based authorizationnoRole-based access control
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InfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOrigoDBPouchDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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