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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Realm vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	29.86
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.11
Rank	#49	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	6.52
Rank	#65	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

realm.io

riak.com/products/riak-kv

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

realm.io/docs

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

2014

2009

Current release

2.0.8, August 2021

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Now a part of MongoDB Data Platform , Realm Database is the fast, easy to use, and...
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Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Realm ensures offline-first functionality, meaning apps run smoothly and deliver...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Mobile Consumer Apps First-Line Worker Apps
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Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,300 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Cathay Pacific Royal Carribbean Cruise Lines Open Source Database powers apps built...
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Market metrics

Fastest growing database to drive 23,500 GitHub stars Over 600,000 daily active instances
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Used by 100,000+ developers 2 bn installs Currently used in 40k+ applications in...
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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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Realm database is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
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DB-Engines blog posts

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