DBMS > InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. WakandaDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

www.singlestore.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

docs.singlestore.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

SingleStore Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2021

2019

2013

2012

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

8.5, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.
STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.

SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities

Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

yes

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
» more

SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
» more

Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
» more

SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
» more

Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
» more

Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
» more

Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more

IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
» more

Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more

Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
» more

F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
» more

News

An Introductory Guide to Grafana Alerts
16 May 2024

What to Expect When You’re Expecting InfluxDB: A Guide
14 May 2024

Introduction to Apache Iceberg
9 May 2024

Converting Timestamp to Date in Java
7 May 2024

A Detailed Guide to C# TimeSpan
2 May 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.