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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewquasar.aivitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdoc.quasar.ai/­mastervitess.io/­docs
DeveloperquasardbThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2015201320092013
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++GoC++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Cachelot.ioInfluxDBQuasardbVitess
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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