DBMS > InfluxDB vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.leanxcale.com

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

LeanXcale

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2011

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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