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

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

prometheus.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

prometheus.io/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2015

1999

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

by Federation

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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