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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

rockset.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Symas

Rockset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2011

2019

2000

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

0.9.32, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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