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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. PouchDB vs. TempoIQ vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time 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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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpouchdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)victoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTempoIQVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20122013201220122018
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.7.6, April 20247.1.1, June 2019v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accountsnosimple authentication-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DrillInfluxDBPouchDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBVictoriaMetrics
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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