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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. Solr vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used open source RDBMS

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.

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.mysql.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

solr.apache.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tobias Oetiker

Apache Software Foundation

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

1995

1999

2006

2010

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data only

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java plugins

Java

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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