DBMS > InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Alex Kashirin

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

1995

2019

2020

2016

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

C++ API
Java 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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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