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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml vs. VelocityDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOpenNMS Groupquasardbinformationpartners gmbhVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132014200920152011
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 20241.07.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesBased on Windows Authentication
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InfluxDBNewtsQuasardbsearchxmlVelocityDB
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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