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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. Vitess

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/memgraph.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmemgraph.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Memgraph LtdThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2013201720172013
Current release2.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 201815.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnoUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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InfluxDBIRONdbMemgraphVitess
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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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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