DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Kdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Kdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA distributed reliable key-value storeDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsHigh performance Time Series DBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.03
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score7.64
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.47
Rank#93  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewkx.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.influxdata.com/­influxdbcode.kx.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcRocket Software
Initial release201220132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031985
Current release3.4, August 20192.7.5, January 20243.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageCGoGoqC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyesoptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesrestrictednonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesnoyes infowith viewsyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infoconfigurable
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.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon RedshiftetcdInfluxDBKdbUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
» more
Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
» more
Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
» more
Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
» more
Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
upon request
» more
News

Sync Data from InfluxDB v2 to v3 With the Quix Template
8 April 2024

Infrastructure Monitoring Basics: Getting Started with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana
5 April 2024

Comparing Dates in Java: A Tutorial
3 April 2024

Python ARIMA Tutorial
29 March 2024

Time Series, InfluxDB, and Vector Databases
26 March 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesCData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Amazon RedshiftetcdInfluxDBKdbUniData,UniVerse
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Increased popularity for consuming DBMS services out of the cloud
2 October 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Power analytics as a service capabilities using Amazon Redshift | Amazon Web Services
17 April 2024, AWS Blog

Explore data with ease: Use SQL and Text-to-SQL in Amazon SageMaker Studio JupyterLab notebooks | Amazon Web ...
16 April 2024, AWS Blog

How Aura from Unity revolutionized their big data pipeline with Amazon Redshift Serverless | Amazon Web Services
4 April 2024, AWS Blog

Amazon Redshift adds new AI capabilities, including Amazon Q, to boost efficiency and productivity | Amazon Web ...
29 November 2023, AWS Blog

Amazon Redshift announcements at AWS re:Invent 2023 to enable analytics on all your data | Amazon Web Services
29 November 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

ETCD directives don't go well with RBI's stellar reputation
14 April 2024, Business Standard

RBI defers exchange traded currency derivatives norms
5 April 2024, The Indian Express

Killing a market, softly: How an RBI communique could end India's thriving ETCD market
7 April 2024, The Economic Times

RBI holds firm on rupee derivatives stance, defers norm implementation to May 3
4 April 2024, The Hindu

Mint explainer: Is it the end of exchange-traded currency derivatives? | Mint
3 April 2024, Mint

provided by Google News

Run and manage open source InfluxDB databases with Amazon Timestream | Amazon Web Services
14 March 2024, AWS Blog

dataFEED OPC Suite increases application security with OPC UA Tunnel and includes InfluxDB support | Electronics360
16 April 2024, Electronics360

How the FDAP Stack Gives InfluxDB 3.0 Real-Time Speed, Efficiency
15 March 2024, Datanami

AWS and InfluxData partner to offer managed time series database Timestream for InfluxDB
5 April 2024, VentureBeat

Amazon Timestream: Managed InfluxDB for Time Series Data
14 March 2024, The New Stack

provided by Google News

Turbocharging the Engine: KX Unleashes AI-First Transformation with kdb+
28 February 2024, Business Wire

KX JOINS SNOWFLAKE PARTNER NETWORK
27 June 2023, PR Newswire

Introducing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a fully managed analytics engine, commonly used by capital ...
18 May 2023, AWS Blog

McLaren Applied and KX partner to enhance ATLAS software analytics capabilities
9 August 2023, Professional Motorsport World

KX ANNOUNCES KDB INSIGHTS AS FULLY MANAGED SERVICE ON AMAZON FINSPACE
18 May 2023, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

Unidata Reports Full Year 2023 Earnings
31 March 2024, Simply Wall St

UniData implements a milestone Smart Class Room project at The Asian School | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM ...
8 April 2024, News of Bahrain- DT News

Bahrain Business: UniData implements major 'smart classroom' project
8 April 2024, Gulf Digital News

Unidata uses Jetstream to make geoscience data available to science community
29 January 2020, IU Newsroom

Data + software services
21 August 2018, UCAR

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here