DBMS > Cassandra vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. InfluxDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare Cassandra and InfluxDB with MongoDB, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	110.06
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	31.27
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Initial release

2008

2013

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.1, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Aiven for Apache Cassandra: Fully managed, open source NoSQL database specifically designed to be highly available, performant, and scalable.
Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
» more

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more

Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
» more

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more

Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
» more

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more

Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
» more

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more

Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
» more

Fastest-growing database to drive 25,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
» more

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more

News

Introducing the New JSON API for Astra DB: Develop AI Applications in JavaScript with Ease
19 September 2023

Build a Text and Image Search App with Astra DB Vector Search, NodeJS, Stargate’s New JSON API, and Stargate-Mongoose
6 September 2023

Chingari: Empowering Social Media Creators and Viewers with Astra DB
30 August 2023

Keeping the Momentum Rolling with Google Cloud
24 August 2023

A Perfect Pair: Apache Cassandra and Generative AI
18 August 2023

Time Series Is out of This World: Data in the Space Sector
18 September 2023

Introduction to Apache Arrow
15 September 2023

Can Companies Really Self-Host at Scale?
1 September 2023

12 Best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools
28 August 2023

Tutorial: Modifying Grafana's Source Code
25 August 2023