DBMS > InfluxDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2013

1993

2014

2012

2020

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.4-12

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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