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DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Riak TS vs. RisingWave vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Riak TS vs. RisingWave vs. XTDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesRisingWave LabsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2013201520222019
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.0.0, September 20221.2, September 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangRustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsnoStandard SQL-types and JSONyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, limitedyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnoUsers and Roles
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBRiak TSRisingWaveXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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