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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. ToroDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAnalytics Platform for Big DataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsolr.apache.orgwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.8Kdata
Initial release20131992200620032016
Current release2.7.6, April 202417, July 20159.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJava pluginsyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles
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InfluxDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSolrSplunkToroDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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