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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS
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Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewobjectbox.iosqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132017200920172014
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.2.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++ErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
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
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlanguser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsyesyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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