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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	21.38
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Initial release

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

More information provided by the system vendor

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
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