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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. TDengine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.96
Rank#121  Overall
#23  Document stores
#62  Relational DBMS
Score29.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#122  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release201220132019
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.5.1, November 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
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 engine
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accountsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DrillInfluxDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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TDengine™ is an open-source, cloud-native time-series database (TSDB) optimized for...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High performance: TDengine is the only time-series database that solves the high-cardinality...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Internet of Things (IoT) Industrial Internet (IIoT) Connected Cars DevOps Energy...
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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 25,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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TDengine has garnered over 20,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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TDengine Community Edition is open-source software released under the AGPL 3.0 that...
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