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DBMS > GridDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitegriddb.netwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperToshiba CorporationOracleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2013201320112014
Current release5.1, August 20222.7.6, April 202424.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampNumeric data and Stringsoptionalyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 engineyes infooff heap cacheyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles
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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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