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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. Quasardb vs. Rockset

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
quasar.airockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperQdrantquasardbRockset
Initial release20132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB202120092019
Current release2.7.6, April 202410 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoCRustC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infointeger and binarydynamic typing
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infowith tagsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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InfluxDBPostgres-XLQdrantQuasardbRockset
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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