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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sadas Engine

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.memcached.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2013201120032014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2006
Current release2.7.5, January 20241.23, February 20211.6.25, March 202410 R1, October 20188.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnonoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesnoyesyes
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 infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBLevelDBMemcachedPostgres-XLSadas Engine
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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