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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptWidely used RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­databaserockset.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasedocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGoogleOracleRocksetByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132014198020192016
Current release2.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 201723c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesdynamic typingno
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.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possiblenono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding, horizontal partitioningAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
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 MemoryDByes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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InfluxDBLovefieldOracleRocksetTerarkDB
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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