DBMS > InfluxDB vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2013

2004

2013

2018

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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