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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.1

InfluxDB improved operational efficiency by automating monitoring, reducing incident detection time, and reallocating analytics resources to higher-value tasks.

Sentiment score

6.9

SingleStore offers cost-efficient, scalable solutions with easy setup, supporting enterprise-level transactional and analytical needs in one platform.

These improvements translated into both cost savings and better service reliability, directly impacting business outcomes.

Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees

It simplifies processes and reduces the need for additional employees.

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Team Lead, Software at Energybox

InfluxDB reduced my time to show data without any interruption, also reducing the number of people needed to manage the project; it is very good to have InfluxDB in my project.

Btece Lodi

Student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The objective was to scale as data loads with high-performing query model responses.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.2

Users find forums helpful, but premium support could improve follow-up; enterprise users appreciate expert support despite data challenges.

Sentiment score

7.6

SingleStore's 24/7 proactive support is highly rated, personalized, and effective, using Zendesk for prioritization and dedicated onboarding support.

They get on a call, resolve issues, and handle everything efficiently.

Manas Kashyap

DevOps Engineer at Elevenxcapital

The InfluxDB support team was knowledgeable and helped us troubleshoot complex problems efficiently.

Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees

Obtaining that quantity of data directly from InfluxDB is quite challenging, and that is why we ask for help from the InfluxDB team to retrieve the data to avoid timeouts and those kinds of issues.

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Team Lead, Software at Energybox

The customer support is very proactive and responsive twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.3

InfluxDB offers robust scalability for enterprise needs, effectively managing large data volumes and diverse environments with efficient performance.

Sentiment score

8.1

SingleStore efficiently scales with minimal downtime, handling extensive queries and complex tasks, despite challenges with data growth.

The main challenge with InfluxDB, which is common with all databases, was handling very high throughput systems and high throughput message flow.

Sayak Roy

Deployment Engineer at Derq

It can handle large volumes of time-series data and with high ingestion rates, making it suitable for enterprise-scale deployments.

Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees

We’ve scaled on volume with seven years of continuous data without performance degradation.

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Senior System Developer at Norled

SingleStore's scalability is high and it can be used by any size of organization and can handle any needs of any organization.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

InfluxDB is reliable and stable, though managing on-premises in non-cloud regions adds complexity; offers 99% uptime.

Sentiment score

8.4

SingleStore is rated highly stable, with most downtime caused by external factors, receiving ratings between seven and ten.

It serves as the backbone of our application, and its stability is crucial.

Senior System Developer at Norled

We have used it to support mission-critical systems with continuous data ingestion and real-time analytics.

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Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees

It is very stable, with no reliability or downtime in InfluxDB.

Btece Lodi

Student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not seen any downtime.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Room For Improvement

InfluxDB's user experience needs improvement in interface, scalability, and security; enhancements in integration and advanced features are crucial.

SingleStore users need improved Azure integration, better documentation, advanced SQL features, and optimized data handling and server tools.

InfluxDB deprecated FluxQL, which was intuitive since developers are already familiar with standard querying.

Milan Predic

Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency

Having a SQL abstraction in InfluxDB could be beneficial, making it more accessible for teams that prefer querying with SQL-style syntax.

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Senior System Developer at Norled

It could include automated backup and a monitoring solution for InfluxDB or a script developed by a REST API.

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Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Error handling needs attention. When it fails due to memory, it only indicates that but not exactly in which process it failed.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Setup Cost

InfluxDB's flexible pricing demands strategic planning to balance server needs and costs for both cloud and on-premises solutions.

SingleStore's pricing is cost-effective for large firms with flexible cloud tiers and free on-premises licensing for startups.

We use the open-source version of InfluxDB, so it is free.

Senior System Developer at Norled

I find the cloud version pricing of InfluxDB reasonable, and for the on-premises solution we use in our service, we need to purchase licenses.

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

Pricing is based on data volume, retention, and features, which really makes it scalable but requires careful planning to avoid unexpected costs.

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Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it can be a bit expensive for startups.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Valuable Features

InfluxDB offers robust time-series features, seamless Grafana integration, real-time alerting, scalability, and efficient data handling for diverse applications.

SingleStore offers fast recovery, high data compression, and scalability, enhancing performance, productivity, and efficient data processing with seamless integration.

The most important feature for us is low latency, which is crucial in building a high-performance engine for day trading.

Milan Predic

Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency

InfluxDB’s core functionality is crucial as it allows us to store our data and execute queries with excellent response times.

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Senior System Developer at Norled

It helps me maintain my solution easily because it is very reliable, so we didn't face any performance issues or crashes regarding our queries; we can get the results very fast.

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Solutions Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Categories and Ranking

InfluxDB

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Non-Relational Databases (1st), Open Source Databases (7th), Network Monitoring Software (12th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (16th), NoSQL Databases (6th)

SingleStore

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (17th), Vector Databases (17th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Databases solutions, they serve different purposes. InfluxDB is designed for Open Source Databases and holds a mindshare of 5.0%, up 3.3% compared to last year.
SingleStore, on the other hand, focuses on Database as a Service (DBaaS), holds 2.9% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.

Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
InfluxDB	5.0%
PostgreSQL	14.4%
Firebird SQL	11.9%
Other	68.7%

Open Source Databases

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SingleStore	2.9%
Amazon RDS	12.6%
MongoDB Atlas	12.1%
Other	72.4%

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Featured Reviews

Time series data has been managed efficiently for IoT sensors but reporting still needs improvement

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

How InfluxDB can be improved is relevant since for Energy Box, we face certain issues. We have customers worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, but when we expanded to China two years ago, they indicated that they do not support the cloud version there. Our application is built on the cloud, which required us to create a separate application for Azure China, which was painful for us. The second issue involves frequent version changes. For example, we started with version one, transitioned to version two, and I heard they are considering InfluxDB version three, reverting to earlier practices. InfluxDB should improve without completely changing its approach. Now we have to redo our work for InfluxDB version three. Regarding needed improvements, the documentation is sufficient, but pricing presents a challenge. InfluxDB has standard pricing, which is acceptable for large companies. However, for startups in our position, they should provide special discounts so everyone can utilize it. The pricing should adapt as companies grow, which is a reasonable expectation.

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Real-time analytics has transformed daily decisions and delivers fast dashboards from streaming data

Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

The best features SingleStore offers include fast data recovery and data compression by 80 percent. Having the information in sheets helps me to process the information quickly. Simplicity in T-SQL is another aspect I appreciate. Data recovery and sheet-based processing help my team on a day-to-day basis by enabling us to handle information efficiently. I would like to add that the data compression by 80 percent helps us in an excellent way since we are very fast in obtaining the data for our dashboards and the compression of the information is great. SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone. It has been very helpful because our internal clients are happy to have the data and make data-driven decisions easily. Making decisions based on data within a two-hour delay to the transactional database is excellent since we went from twenty-four hours to two hours. I think the best contribution is decision-making with data that is close to reality. Reducing that delay from twenty-four hours to two hours has significantly affected my team and business outcomes by increasing productivity. We have been able to serve all our customers, and they are very happy. We can deliver to them on time.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about InfluxDB?

InfluxDB is a database where you can insert data. However, it would be best if you had different components for alerting, data sending, and visualization. You need to install tools to collect data ...

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What needs improvement with InfluxDB?

InfluxDB can be improved in several ways. The Flux query language needs to be learned, but if there were something similar to SQL or previous options, it would be much easier for users without impo...

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What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?

My main use case for InfluxDB is for server management metrics, Kubernetes monitoring, and application performance monitoring due to the time series data involved. We have InfluxDB integrated with ...

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Overview

InfluxDB is open-source software that helps developers and enterprises alike to collect, store, process, and visualize time series data and to build next-generation applications. InfluxDB provides monitoring and insight on IoT, application, system, container, and infrastructure quickly and easily without complexities or compromises in scale, speed, or productivity.

InfluxDB has become a popular insight system for unified metrics and events enabling the most demanding SLAs. InfluxDB is used in just about every type of industry across a wide range of use cases, including network monitoring, IoT monitoring, industrial IoT, and infrastructure and application monitoring.

InfluxDB offers its users:

Infrastructure and application monitoring: Collect, process, and analyze real-time data from edge devices to help optimize distributed infrastructure.

IoT monitoring and analytics: InfluxDB is designed to store large volumes of time series data and quickly perform real-time analysis on that data. Gain insights from all the sensor data and use the collected data to create and perform automated tasks.

Network monitoring: Manage responsive and high-performing networks with widely distributed resources.

InfluxDB Benefits

There are several benefits to using InfluxDB . Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

APIs and ready toolset: InfluxDB can be accessed via a set of powerful tools enabling users to get started quickly, with less programming required. This includes a REST API, extensive client libraries, a wide variety of open-source integrations, and Flux - a functional data scripting language for querying, analysis, and events. The InfluxDB API can be used to write data from edge devices to the InfluxDB instance

Time series engine: Get any data - events, logs, traces - from any edge device - systems, sensors, queues, databases, and networks. This data is stored in a powerful and high-performing engine capable of ingesting millions of data points per second.

Community: InfluxDB has a large community of cloud and open-source developers ready to assist users.

Ready-made templates: Use InfluxDB Templates, a set of tools with a packager and other ready monitoring solutions. These tools allow users to share their monitoring expertise with coworkers and other community members around the world. The Templates gallery offers available templates for some of the most popular tools and applications.

Enhanced UI: InfluxDB’s UI includes an explorer, dashboarding tools, and a script editor. Use it to easily browse the collected metric and event data and apply common transformations. The dashboarding tool comes with a variety of visualization options that help users view insights from the data. The script editor assists users to quickly master Flux with easily accessible examples, auto-completion, and real-time syntax checking.

Reviews from Real Users

InfluxDB stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its data aggregation feature.

Shalauddin Ahamad S., a software engineer at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features are aggregating the data and the integration with Grafana for monitoring.”

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SingleStore delivers the performance you need for enterprise AI, providing the most performant data platform for apps and analytics at scale. SingleStore enables organizations to scale from one to one million customers in one unified platform. SingleStore offers transparent pricing as shown here https://www.singlestore.com/pricing/

SingleStore caters to over 400 customers globally, including major banks and tech companies in 50+ countries and 40+ verticals. It offers seamless scaling for both transactional and analytical workloads, simplifying data management with its MySQL compatibility and real-time processing capabilities. SingleStore's distributed architecture ensures speed and reliability, efficiently handling large data volumes.

What are the key features of SingleStore?

MySQL Compatibility: Eases the learning curve for users.
Built-in Pipelines: Connects to S3, Kafka, and more.
High Concurrency: Processes billions of records swiftly.
Replication & Failover: Enhances speed and reliability.
In-memory Storage: Ensures data safety and quick access.

What benefits can users find in SingleStore reviews?

Automatic Reconfiguration: Simplifies management tasks.
Impressive SQL Performance: Supports complex queries efficiently.
Scalability: Handles large datasets with a multi-node setup.

Top banks and fintech companies leverage SingleStore for efficient management of financial data, while media and telecom industries use it for scalable metadata management and improved data processing. Retail and eCommerce sectors benefit from enhanced transactional capabilities, reducing the need for separate databases and optimizing reporting processes. SingleStore's capacity to unite diverse workloads makes it a strategic choice across many sectors.

Sample Customers

ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo

400+ customers including: 6sense, Adobe, Akamai, Ant Money, Arcules, CARFAX, Cigna, Cisco, Comcast, DELL, DBS Bank, Dentsu, DirectlyApply, EY, Factors.AI, Fathom Analytics, FirstEnergy, GE, Goldman Sachs, Heap, Hulu, IMAX, impact.com, Kroger, LG, LiveRamp, Lumana, Nvidia, OpenDialog, Outreach, Palo Alto Networks, PicPay, RBC, Samsung, SegMetrics, Siemens, SiteImprove, SiriusXM, SK Telecom, SKAI, SONY, STC, SunRun, TATA, Thorn, ZoomInfo.