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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	21.54
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#360	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

STS Soft SC

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2011

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license 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

Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

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

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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