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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Score	29.44
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#91	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

questdb.io/docs/introduction

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

QuestDB Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

Current release

2.5.1, November 2022

7.9.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Configurable consistency for N replicas

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

InfluxData 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 advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Application metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,300 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 24,800 GitHub stars Over 700,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Apache 2.0.
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News

Getting Started with Apache Kafka and InfluxDB
29 September 2022

Rust Object Store Donation
22 August 2022

TL;DR Python Client Library
9 August 2022

Outer Joins in Flux
3 August 2022

Introduction to Cloud Native
2 August 2022

SQL Performance Tuning: Introducing EXPLAIN
26 January 2023

Three SQL Keywords for Finding Missing Data
24 January 2023

QuestDB 6.7 Release
23 January 2023

Using QuestDB to collect infrastructure metrics
19 January 2023

What Is Time-Series Data?
17 January 2023

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