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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	29.36
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#109	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#279	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

1993

1999

Current release

2.5.1, November 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,300 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 24,800 GitHub stars Over 700,000 daily active instances
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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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News

Getting Started with Apache Kafka and InfluxDB
29 September 2022

Rust Object Store Donation
22 August 2022

TL;DR Python Client Library
9 August 2022

Outer Joins in Flux
3 August 2022

Introduction to Cloud Native
2 August 2022

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Why Build a Time Series Data Platform?
20 July 2017, Paul Dix (guest author)

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
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Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

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