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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.57
Rank#244  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduTobias Oetiker
Initial release20172013201420151999
Current release1.2.2, February 20232.7.6, April 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScriptGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsnoNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsnonono
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Apache DorisInfluxDBLokiJSPrometheusRRDtool
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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