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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewnsdb.iowww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2013201720192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.7.6, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Scala
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardinghorizontal partitioning
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 methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBNSDbPineconePostgres-XL
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 27,500 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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