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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSquestdb.iorocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDoltHub IncQuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20182013201420142013
Current release2.7.6, April 20249.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyesno
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releasenoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID for single-table writesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupsimple rights management via user accountsnono
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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