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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

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Score	27.17
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#152	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	3.09
Rank	#91	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.ignitetech.com/infobright-db

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2013

2005

2009

Current release

2.0.2, November 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
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#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

users and table-level permissions

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages

Time to Value An end-to-end platform, InfluxData is ready to go on the cloud or via...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Instrumentation of every available surface in the material...
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Key customers

InfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Market metrics

Fastest growing database to garnish 17,000 github stars Over 260,000 daily active...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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News

Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.18.2
30 April 2021

Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS 2.0.6
29 April 2021

Deploying Services with Docker, NGINX, Route 53 & Let’s Encrypt
26 April 2021

Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Enterprise 1.8.5
20 April 2021

InfluxDB’s Checks and Notifications System
19 April 2021

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14 April 2021, Business Wire

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29 April 2021, ADT Magazine

InfluxData releases InfluxDB Notebooks to improve communication for software development teams
16 April 2021, Help Net Security

InfluxData strengthens leadership team with three new Vice Presidents
21 April 2021, Business Wire

InfluxData Advances Possibilities of Time Series Data With General Availability of InfluxDB 2.0
10 November 2020, Business Wire

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