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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	26.32
Rank	#27	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.17
Rank	#82	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#290	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rethinkdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2009

2011

Current release

2.0.2, November 2020

2.4.0, December 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

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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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

InfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Market metrics

Fastest growing database to garnish 17,000 github stars Over 260,000 daily active...
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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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