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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB vs. Titan

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlprometheus.iorocksdb.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperOracleFacebook, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132011201520132012
Current release2.7.6, April 202424.1, May 20249.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsoptionalNumeric data onlynoyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infoby Federationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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InfluxDBOracle NoSQLPrometheusRocksDBTitan
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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