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DBMS > InfluxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.postgres-xl.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201320172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current release2.7.6, April 20244.0 (May 2024)10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBObjectBoxPostgres-XLSnowflake
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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