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NameApache Drill Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB Xexclude from comparisonSQLite Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS with GEO package
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DeveloperApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release201220132000
Current release1.18.0, September 20202.0.2, November 20203.35.0 (12 March 2021), March 2031
License Commercial or Open SourceOpen Source Apache Version 2Open Source MIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source Public Domain
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
WindowsLinux
OS X through Homebrewserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes dynamic column types
Typing predefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL Support of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyes SQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDPADO.NET inofficial driver
JDBC inofficial driver
ODBC inofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
ScalaActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding in enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor in enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys Referential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes via file-system locks
Durability Support for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes Depending on used storage engineyes
User concepts Access controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accountsno
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value An end-to-end platform, InfluxData is ready to go on the cloud or via...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Instrumentation of every available surface in the material...
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Key customersInfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Market metricsFastest growing database to garnish 17,000 github stars Over 260,000 daily active...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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