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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB vs. Tkrzw vs. VoltDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbdbmx.net/­tkrzwwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperRocksetByteDance, originally TerarkMikio HirabayashiVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20132019201620202010
Current release2.7.6, April 20240.9.3, August 202011.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingnonoyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic shardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenonoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
More information provided by the system vendor
InfluxDBRocksetTerarkDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetVoltDB
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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