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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

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Score	26.55
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	33.52
Rank	#25	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#347	Overall
	#142	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Microsoft

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2014

2009

Current release

2.0.2, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

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#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Instrumentation of every available surface in the material...
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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

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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News

Release Announcement: InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Enterprise 1.8.5
20 April 2021

InfluxDB’s Checks and Notifications System
19 April 2021

How to Parse Your XML Data with Telegraf
14 April 2021

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Configuring a Slack Notification with InfluxDB
13 April 2021

How to Control Crowds with Python, OpenCV and InfluxDB
9 April 2021

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