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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score29.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#378  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbnsdb.io/­Architecture
Initial release20132017
Current release2.5.1, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageGoJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts
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InfluxDBNSDb
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 25,500 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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