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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector 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
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperProgress Software CorporationQdrant
Initial release201319842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2021
Current release2.7.6, April 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication
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InfluxDBOpenEdgePostgres-XLQdrant
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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