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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldopentsdb.netrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20131984201420112014
Current release2.7.6, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyInterbase Change Viewsnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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 engineyesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes
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InfluxDBInterbaseLovefieldOpenTSDBRealm
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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