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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. MaxDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
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Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

maxdb.sap.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sqlite.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Tobias Oetiker

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

1984

1999

2000

2010

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.8.0, 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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