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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperTobias OetikerSybase, SAPDwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20131999199320002022
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.8.0, 20223.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsNumeric data onlyyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
in-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules
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InfluxDBRRDtoolSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSSQLiteSurrealDB
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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