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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

1987

2015

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

16.0

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

More information provided by the system vendor

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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