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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	26.87
Rank	#27	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.40
Rank	#28	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	23.19
Rank	#30	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2003

2014

Current release

2.0.2, November 2020

1.6.9, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages

Time to Value An end-to-end platform, InfluxData is ready to go on the cloud or via...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

InfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Market metrics

Fastest growing database to garnish 17,000 github stars Over 260,000 daily active...
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Licensing and pricing models

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