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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TDengine

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release197920132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current releaseV13, July 20242.7.6, April 202410 R1, October 20183.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++GoCC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
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 controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEInfluxDBPostgres-XLTDengine
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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