DBMS > InfluxDB vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

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

www.postgres-xl.org

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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