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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. InfluxDB vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSiteWhere8Kdata
Initial release2023201320102016
Current release1.0, March 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles
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DragonflyInfluxDBSiteWhereToroDB
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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