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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata vs. ToroDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.teradata.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.teradata.com
DeveloperSiteWhereTeradata8Kdata
Initial release2013201019842016
Current release2.7.6, April 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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InfluxDBSiteWhereTeradataToroDB
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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