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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

solr.apache.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

1989

2006

2009

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java plugins

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

based on RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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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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