DB-EnginesExtremeDB: the mission critical dbmsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.16
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
Score29.15
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score133.82
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­cloud/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release201020132000
Current release2.5.1, November 20223.41.1  (10 March 2023), March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageErlangGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsno
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM CloudantInfluxDBSQLite
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 24,900 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
News

Compactor: A Hidden Engine of Database Performance
27 March 2023

Python Time Module: A How-To Guide
24 March 2023

How to Get the Current Date and Time in SQL
20 March 2023

What Is eBPF? An Introductory Guide
14 March 2023

Using Deduplication for Eventually Consistent Transactions
13 March 2023

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesNavicat for SQLite is a powerful and comprehensive SQLite GUI that provides a complete set of functions for database management and development.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
IBM CloudantInfluxDBSQLite
DB-Engines blog posts

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Big gains for Relational Database Management Systems in DB-Engines Ranking
2 February 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

IBM Expands Cloud Database Services with Kubernetes
26 September 2019, EnterpriseAI

IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
22 March 2014, App Developer Magazine

IBM Cloudant - Market Share, Competitor Insights in Database
20 March 2023, 6Sense

Cloudant
1 July 2022, dbdb.io

Hbase vs IBM Cloudant: Database Comparison
1 March 2023, 6Sense

provided by Google News

Cleaning and Interpreting Time Series Metrics with InfluxDB
28 February 2023, The New Stack

New TDengine Benchmark Results Show Up to 37.0x Higher Query ...
28 February 2023, GlobeNewswire

What Are Time Series Databases, and Why Do You Need Them?
27 March 2023, The New Stack

InfluxData Achieves ISO 27001 Certification
21 March 2023, Business Wire

Best Practices to Build IoT Analytics
27 March 2023, The New Stack

provided by Google News

What Is SQLite? (Definition, Use, Example, Alternatives)
21 December 2022, Built In

An Introduction to SQLite with Python — SitePoint
25 October 2022, SitePoint

SQLite for Secrecy Management - Tools and Methods
28 September 2022, Linux Journal

HC-tree is a High-Concurrency Backend for SQLite Supporting ...
25 January 2023, InfoQ.com

SQLite Database Integration Now Available as a Plugin for Testing
25 January 2023, WP Tavern

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Kafka Admin
GS SOLUTIONS, Remote

.NET Developer
Skillspark AB, Remote

C# Team Lead
AlphaPoint, Remote

Head of Business Development
InfluxData, San Francisco, CA

IT Systems Administrator - Mission Systems
SpaceX, Cape Canaveral, FL

Developer
Self Storage Base, Irvine, CA

iOS Developers
Broadwave Studios Agency, Los Angeles, CA

Scientist I, Bioinformatics - Virtual based
ABBVIE, North Chicago, IL

IoS Developer (Sr/Jr)
Praadis Technologies, Princeton, NJ

iOS Developer(Swift / Flutter)
Lionheart Apps (OPC), United States

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Cassandra Forward online event

Want to level up your Cassandra game?
If you missed the event or would like to re-watch a session, replays are available now. Watch now!

Vertica logo

Vertica Accelerator. The fastest analytics and machine learning, delivered as SaaS, with automated setup, administration, and management. Free trial.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here