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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. RRDtool vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
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.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score31.26
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#103  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#195  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperTobias OetikerVictoriaMetrics
Initial release201319992018
Current release2.5.1, November 20221.8.0, 2022v1.89, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsNumeric data only
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
in-process shared library
Pipes
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
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsno
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InfluxDBRRDtoolVictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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High performance, horizontally scalable time series database and monitoring solution...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Specifically designed for highly loaded workloads Addresses most of the scalability...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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When the current monitoring solution can't keep up with increasing workload Kubernetes...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Grammarly, Wix.com, adidas, Sensedia, Brandwatch, CERN, COLOPL, Razorpay See our...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 25,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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8k stars and 100+ contributors on GitHub 100M+ downloads Thousands of active users...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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VictoriaMetrics comes in three versions: an open source version, an Enterprise version...
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