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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

ravendb.net

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Oracle

Hibernating Rhinos

Facebook, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

2011

2010

2013

1985

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

23.3, December 2023

5.4, July 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

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

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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