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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TimesTen

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	21.50
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.15
Rank	#169	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

TempoIQ

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2012

1998

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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

HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

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
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Using Azure Blob Storage for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
20 March 2025

Telegraf 1.34 Release Notes
12 March 2025

Alerting with InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
11 March 2025

An Introduction to Database Security
6 March 2025

Building Your First Python Plugin for the InfluxDB 3 Processing Engine
4 March 2025

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Recent citations in the news

Simplify Industrial IoT: Use InfluxDB edge replication for centralized time series analytics with Amazon Timestream
3 September 2024, AWS Blog

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4 September 2024, VentureBeat

InfluxData Appoints Pat Walsh as Chief Marketing Officer
7 January 2025, Business Wire

InfluxDB 3 Core Released In Public Alpha
3 February 2025, iProgrammer

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19 February 2025, SDxCentral

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