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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. mSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrethinkdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikirethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHughes TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Rockset
Initial release20132003199420092019
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.6.27, May 20244.4, October 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoCCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnononoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenoneSharding inforange basedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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InfluxDBMemcachedmSQL infoMini SQLRethinkDBRockset
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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