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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. openGemini vs. Prometheus

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWell established RDBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score21.47
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.47
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#299  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score6.92
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
prometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.opengemini.org/­guideprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationGoogleHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201420222015
Current release2.7.6, April 202412.0, July 20242.1.12, February 20171.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptGoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, StringNumeric data only
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyIngres Replicatornoneyesyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAdministrators and common users accountsno
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InfluxDBIngresLovefieldopenGeminiPrometheus
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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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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