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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

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NamechDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overvieworigodb.comprometheus.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdborigodb.com/­docsprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release202320132009 infounder the name LiveDB20152014
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC#GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsUser defined using .NET types and collectionsNumeric data onlyyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query languagenonoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsRole based authorizationno
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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