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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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	20.33
Rank	#32	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#141	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	78.49
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.ignitetech.com/solutions/information-technology/infobrightdb

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2005

1984

Current release

1.7.8, August 2019

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial info

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

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X info

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support info

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

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor info

in enterprise version only

Master-slave replication

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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 info

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard info

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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