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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score31.26
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#341  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#195  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/­solutions/­time-series-databasevictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/­irondbdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCirconus LLC.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release201320172018
Current release2.5.1, November 2022V0.10.20, January 2018v1.89, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsno
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InfluxDBIRONdbVictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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High performance, horizontally scalable time series database and monitoring solution...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Specifically designed for highly loaded workloads Addresses most of the scalability...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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When the current monitoring solution can't keep up with increasing workload Kubernetes...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Grammarly, Wix.com, adidas, Sensedia, Brandwatch, CERN, COLOPL, Razorpay See our...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 25,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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8k stars and 100+ contributors on GitHub 100M+ downloads Thousands of active users...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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VictoriaMetrics comes in three versions: an open source version, an Enterprise version...
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