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InfluxDB vs MariaDB: What are the differences?

Introduction

InfluxDB and MariaDB are two widely used databases, each with their own specific features and use cases. Below are the key differences between InfluxDB and MariaDB:

  1. Data Structure: InfluxDB is optimized for time-series data, which is data that changes over time and is stored with a timestamp. It provides specific functionality for efficiently storing and querying time-series data. On the other hand, MariaDB is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports structured data in tables with relationships between them.

  2. Performance: InfluxDB is designed to handle high write and query loads for time-series data, making it highly performant for these specific workloads. It provides efficient compression techniques and indexing mechanisms specifically optimized for time-series data. MariaDB, on the other hand, offers a more general-purpose approach to database management and is not specifically optimized for time-series data.

  3. Scalability: InfluxDB is highly scalable and can handle large volumes of time-series data by horizontally scaling across multiple nodes. It uses a sharding mechanism to distribute data across multiple servers, allowing for increased storage capacity and query throughput. MariaDB also supports scalability through sharding and replication techniques, but it is not specifically designed for time-series data and may have limitations compared to InfluxDB in terms of performance for large time-series data sets.

  4. Query Language: InfluxDB uses a specialized query language called InfluxQL, which is specifically designed for time-series data. It provides functionality for working with time ranges, aggregating data over specific intervals, and filtering data based on time conditions. On the other hand, MariaDB uses SQL (Structured Query Language), which is a widely adopted language for relational databases and provides a more comprehensive set of features for working with structured data.

  5. Data Storage: InfluxDB uses its own custom storage engine called the Time-Structured Merge Tree (TSM), which is optimized for efficient storage and retrieval of time-series data. It provides features like data compression, downsampling, and data retention policies to manage the storage of time-series data effectively. MariaDB, on the other hand, supports multiple storage engines such as InnoDB and MyISAM, which offer different trade-offs between performance, scalability, and data integrity.

  6. Use Cases: InfluxDB is commonly used in applications that deal with monitoring, logging, and sensor data, where capturing and analyzing time-series data is crucial. It is often used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, DevOps monitoring, and real-time analytics. MariaDB, on the other hand, is widely used as a general-purpose relational database management system that can handle a wide range of applications and use cases, including web applications, e-commerce platforms, and content management systems.

In Summary, InfluxDB is specifically optimized for handling time-series data with high write and query loads, using a specialized query language and a custom storage engine. On the other hand, MariaDB is a general-purpose relational database management system that supports structured data and offers a wide range of features for various applications and use cases.

Advice on InfluxDB and MariaDB
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I have a lot of data that's currently sitting in a MariaDB database, a lot of tables that weigh 200gb with indexes. Most of the large tables have a date column which is always filtered, but there are usually 4-6 additional columns that are filtered and used for statistics. I'm trying to figure out the best tool for storing and analyzing large amounts of data. Preferably self-hosted or a cheap solution. The current problem I'm running into is speed. Even with pretty good indexes, if I'm trying to load a large dataset, it's pretty slow.

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Druid Could be an amazing solution for your use case, My understanding, and the assumption is you are looking to export your data from MariaDB for Analytical workload. It can be used for time series database as well as a data warehouse and can be scaled horizontally once your data increases. It's pretty easy to set up on any environment (Cloud, Kubernetes, or Self-hosted nix system). Some important features which make it a perfect solution for your use case. 1. It can do streaming ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis) as well as batch ingestion (Files from Local & Cloud Storage or Databases like MySQL, Postgres). In your case MariaDB (which has the same drivers to MySQL) 2. Columnar Database, So you can query just the fields which are required, and that runs your query faster automatically. 3. Druid intelligently partitions data based on time and time-based queries are significantly faster than traditional databases. 4. Scale up or down by just adding or removing servers, and Druid automatically rebalances. Fault-tolerant architecture routes around server failures 5. Gives ana amazing centralized UI to manage data sources, query, tasks.

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Maxim Ryakhovskiy
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Hi all. I am an informatics student, and I need to realise a simple website for my friend. I am planning to realise the website using Node.js and Mongoose, since I have already done a project using these technologies. I also know SQL, and I have used PostgreSQL and MySQL previously.

The website will show a possible travel destination and local transportation. The database is used to store information about traveling, so only admin will manage the content (especially photos). While clients will see the content uploaded by the admin. I am planning to use Mongoose because it is very simple and efficient for this project. Please give me your opinion about this choice.

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The use case you are describing would benefit from a self-hosted headless CMS like contentful. You can also go for Strapi with a database of your choice but here you would have to host Strapi and the underlying database (if not using SQLite) yourself. If you want to use Strapi, you can ease your work by using something like PlanetSCaleDB as the backing database for Strapi.

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Reza Malek
at Meam Software Engineering Group · | 4 upvotes · 216.3K views
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Your requirements seem nothing special. on the other hand, MongoDB is commonly used with Node. you could use Mongo without defining a Schema, does it give you any benefits? Also, note that development speed matters. In most cases RDBMS are the best choice, Learn and use Postgres for life!

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Tarun Batra
Senior Software Developer at Okta · | 2 upvotes · 208.6K views
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MongoDB and Mongoose are commonly used with Node.js and the use case doesn't seem to be requiring any special considerations as of now. However using MongoDB now will allow you to easily expand and modify your use case in future.

If not MongoDB, then my second choice will be PostgreSQL. It's a generic purpose database with jsonb support (if you need it) and lots of resources online. Nobody was fired for choosing PostgreSQL.

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Nutchanon Ninyawee

SQL is not so good at query lat long out of the box. you might need to use additional tools for that like UTM coordinates or Uber's H3.

If you use mongoDB, it support 2d coordinate query out of the box.

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Any database will be a great choice for your app, which is less of a technical challenge and more about great content. Go for it, the geographical search features maybe be actually handy for you.

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Ruslan Rayanov
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Hi, Maxim! Most likely, the site is almost ready. But we would like to share our development with you. https://falcon.web-automation.ru/ This is a constructor for web application. With it, you can create almost any site with different roles which have different levels of access to information and different functionality. The platform is managed via sql. knowing sql, you will be able to change the business logic as necessary and during further project maintenance. We will be glad to hear your feedback about the platform.

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Václav Hodek
CEO, lead developer at Localazy · | 1 upvotes · 209K views
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Any database engine should work well but I vote for Postgres because of PostGIS extension that may be handy for travel related site. There's nothing special about your requirements.

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We are building an IOT service with heavy write throughput and fewer reads (we need downsampling records). We prefer to have good reliability when comes to data and prefer to have data retention based on policies.

So, we are looking for what is the best underlying DB for ingesting a lot of data and do queries easily

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Yaron Lavi
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We had a similar challenge. We started with DynamoDB, Timescale, and even InfluxDB and Mongo - to eventually settle with PostgreSQL. Assuming the inbound data pipeline in queued (for example, Kinesis/Kafka -> S3 -> and some Lambda functions), PostgreSQL gave us a We had a similar challenge. We started with DynamoDB, Timescale and even InfluxDB and Mongo - to eventually settle with PostgreSQL. Assuming the inbound data pipeline in queued (for example, Kinesis/Kafka -> S3 -> and some Lambda functions), PostgreSQL gave us better performance by far.

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Druid is amazing for this use case and is a cloud-native solution that can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure or on Kubernetes. - Easy to scale horizontally - Column Oriented Database - SQL to query data - Streaming and Batch Ingestion - Native search indexes It has feature to work as TimeSeriesDB, Datawarehouse, and has Time-optimized partitioning.

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Ankit Malik
Software Developer at CloudCover · | 3 upvotes · 323.3K views
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if you want to find a serverless solution with capability of a lot of storage and SQL kind of capability then google bigquery is the best solution for that.

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Decisions about InfluxDB and MariaDB
Omran Jamal
CTO & Co-founder at Bonton Connect · | 4 upvotes · 523.3K views

We actually use both Mongo and SQL databases in production. Mongo excels in both speed and developer friendliness when it comes to geospatial data and queries on the geospatial data, but we also like ACID compliance hence most of our other data (except on-site logs) are stored in a SQL Database (MariaDB for now)

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Benoit Larroque
Principal Engineer at Sqreen · | 2 upvotes · 134.2K views

I chose TimescaleDB because to be the backend system of our production monitoring system. We needed to be able to keep track of multiple high cardinality dimensions.

The drawbacks of this decision are our monitoring system is a bit more ad hoc than it used to (New Relic Insights)

We are combining this with Grafana for display and Telegraf for data collection

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Pros of InfluxDB
Pros of MariaDB
  • 58
    Time-series data analysis
  • 30
    Easy setup, no dependencies
  • 24
    Fast, scalable & open source
  • 21
    Open source
  • 20
    Real-time analytics
  • 6
    Continuous Query support
  • 5
    Easy Query Language
  • 4
    HTTP API
  • 4
    Out-of-the-box, automatic Retention Policy
  • 1
    Offers Enterprise version
  • 1
    Free Open Source version
  • 149
    Drop-in mysql replacement
  • 100
    Great performance
  • 74
    Open source
  • 55
    Free
  • 44
    Easy setup
  • 15
    Easy and fast
  • 14
    Lead developer is "monty" widenius the founder of mysql
  • 6
    Also an aws rds service
  • 4
    Consistent and robust
  • 4
    Learning curve easy
  • 2
    Native JSON Support / Dynamic Columns
  • 1
    Real Multi Threaded queries on a table/db

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Cons of InfluxDB
Cons of MariaDB
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    Instability
  • 1
    Proprietary query language
  • 1
    HA or Clustering is only in paid version
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