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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

2000

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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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