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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	29.55
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#256	Overall
	#39	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	22.86
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sequoiadb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2014

Current release

2.0.8, August 2021

3.2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

proprietary protocol using JSON

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++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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