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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	26.87
Rank	#27	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	71.43
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.teradata.com

Developer

InterSystems

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2018

1984

Current release

2.0.2, November 2020

2020.2, July 2020

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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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

InfluxDB Latest Tag Updated in Docker Hub
26 February 2021

The Future of InfluxDB OSS: More Open, Permissive with Complementary Closed Source
26 February 2021

Monitoring DigitalOcean Billing with InfluxDB
24 February 2021

InfluxDB C Client Library for Capturing Statistics
23 February 2021

A Partnership Between InfluxData and Ockam Brings Trust to Time Series Data
22 February 2021

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