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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

Tencent

Initial release

2013

2010

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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