DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. TiDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score5.14
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.commilvus.iopingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperGoogleManticore SoftwarePingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132014201720192016
Current release2.7.5, January 20242.1.12, February 20176.0, February 20232.3.4, January 20247.6.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for MilvusTiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.
Implementation languageGoJavaScriptC++C++, GoGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBLovefieldManticore SearchMilvusTiDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more
Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
» more
TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
» more
Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more
Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
» more
- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
» more
Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more
RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
» more
TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
» more
Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more
Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
» more
Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
» more
Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more
As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
» more
34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more
Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
» more
TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
» more
News

Time Series, InfluxDB, and Vector Databases
26 March 2024

Machine Learning and Infrastructure Monitoring: Tools and Justification
20 March 2024

Making Most Recent Value Queries Hundreds of Times Faster
18 March 2024

Telegraf 1.30 Release Notes
15 March 2024

Tale of the Tape: Data Historians vs Time Series Databases
13 March 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
InfluxDBLovefieldManticore SearchMilvusTiDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Vector databases
2 June 2023, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Run and manage open source InfluxDB databases with Amazon Timestream | Amazon Web Services
14 March 2024, AWS Blog

Amazon Timestream: Managed InfluxDB for Time Series Data
14 March 2024, The New Stack

How the FDAP Stack Gives InfluxDB 3.0 Real-Time Speed, Efficiency
15 March 2024, Datanami

InfluxData Collaborating with AWS to Bring InfluxDB and Time Series Analytics to Developers Around the World
15 March 2024, Business Wire

How Apache Arrow accelerates InfluxDB
21 November 2023, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Vector Search in Databases: FOSDEM's Presentation on Manticore Vector Search
21 February 2024, hackernoon.com

Comparing Meilisearch and Manticore Search Using Key Benchmarks
2 May 2023, hackernoon.com

Manticore is a Faster Alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
25 July 2022, hackernoon.com

8 Google Alternatives: How to Search Crypto, the Dark Web, More
1 February 2023, Gizmodo

TF-IDF in a nutshell. Understanding TF-IDF evolution in 5… | by Sergey Nikolaev
13 April 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

How NVIDIA GPU Acceleration Supercharged Milvus Vector Database
26 March 2024, The New Stack

Zilliz Unveils Game-Changing Features for Vector Search
22 March 2024, Datanami

AI-Powered Search Engine With Milvus Vector Database on Vultr
31 January 2024, SitePoint

Milvus 2.4 Unveils Game-Changing Features for Enhanced Vector Search
20 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Zilliz Cloud boosts vector database performance
31 January 2024, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

How a new database architecture supports scale and reliability in TiDB
11 March 2024, InfoWorld

How PingCAP transformed TiDB into a serverless DBaaS using Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS | Amazon Web Services
14 November 2023, AWS Blog

TiDB 7.5 Sets New Standard for Stability at Scale
19 December 2023, GlobeNewswire

Announcing TiDB 7.4: The Best Database Alternative for MySQL 8.0
1 November 2023, PR Newswire

Unlocking performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of Zomato's Billing Platform by switching from TiDB to ...
22 December 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here