DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Derby vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Derby vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

A lightweight IoT native database management system deployable on the device and syncing the collected data with the cloud and integrated with Hadoop and Spark

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#253	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.17
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	29.55
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	134.73
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#223	Overall
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

db.apache.org/derby

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sqlite.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2018

1997

2013

2000

2018

Current release

10.15.2.0, March 2020

2.0.8, August 2021

3.38.4 (4 May 2022), May 2022

v1.72, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency with synchronizing with the cloud

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

via file-system locks

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

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