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We performed a comparison between InfluxDB and ScyllaDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two NoSQL Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"InfluxDB's best feature is that it's a cloud offering. Other good features include its time-series DB, fast time-bulk queries, and window operations.""The most valuable feature of the solution is we can use InfluxDB to integrate with and plug into any other tools.""The most valuable features are aggregating the data and integration with Graphana for monitoring.""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 from servers. It must be installed on Windows or Linux servers. During installation, ensure that the configuration file is correct to prevent issues. Once data is collected, it can be sent to InfluxDB. For visualization, you can use open-source tools like Grafana.""In our case, it started with a necessity to fill the gap that we had in monitoring. We had very reactive monitoring without trend analysis and without some advanced features. We were able to implement them by using a time series database. We are able to have all the data from applications, logs, and systems, and we can use a simple query language to correlate all the data and make things happen, especially with monitoring. We could more proactively monitor our systems and our players' trends.""The most valuable features of InfluxDB are the documentation and performance, and the good plugins metrics in the ecosystem.""The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand.""The solution is very powerful."

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"The performance aspects of Scylla are good, as always... A good point about Scylla is that it can be used extensively.""It is lightweight, and it requires less infrastructure."

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Cons
"I've tried both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, and each has its limitations.""InfluxDB can improve by including new metrics on other technologies. They had some changes recently to pool data from endpoints but the functionality is not good enough in the industry.""InfluxDB cannot be used for high-cardinality data. It's also difficult and time-consuming to write queries, and there are some issues with bulk API.""The solution doesn't have much of a user interface.""In terms of features that I would like to see or have, in the community version, some features are not available. I would like to have clustering and authentication in the community version.""The solution's UI can be more user-friendly.""InfluxDB is generally stable, but we've encountered issues with the configuration file in our ticket stack. For instance, a mistake in one of the metrics out of a hundred KPIs can disrupt data collection for all KPIs. This happens because the agent stops working if there's an issue with any configuration part. To address this, it is essential to ensure that all configurations are part of the agent's EXE file when provided. This makes it easier to package the agent for server installation and ensures all KPIs are available from the server. Additionally, the agent cannot encrypt and decrypt passwords for authentication, which can be problematic when monitoring URLs or requiring authentication tokens. This requires additional scripting and can prolong service restart times.""The error logging capability can be improved because the logs are not very informative."

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"The documentation of Scylla is an area with shortcomings and needs to be improved.""Data export, along with how we can purchase the data periodically, needs to be improved so that the storage is within control. Then, we could optimize it even better."

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  • "We are using the open-source version of InfluxDB."
  • "InfluxDB is open-source, but there are additional costs for scaling."
  • "InfluxDB recently increased its price. It is very expensive now."
  • "The tool is an open-source product."
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  • "I believe that there is a yearly licensing cost and that it's expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand.
    Top Answer:There were concerns about data loss due to infrastructure limitations. We couldn't back up data locally if we were using the InfluxDB cloud, which was a major drawback. So, InfluxDB could improve its… more »
    Top Answer:Initially, we used Prometheus and Grafana for alerts. But, it wasn't feasible to handle logs and other types of databases. We then switched to InfluxDB due to its user interface, which allowed us to… more »
    Top Answer:The performance aspects of Scylla are good, as always... A good point about Scylla is that it can be used extensively.
    Top Answer:I believe that there is a yearly licensing cost and that it's expensive.
    Top Answer:It has just been a month or so for me with Scylla. The documentation of Scylla is an area with shortcomings and needs to be improved. Improvement of documentation is needed considering that I work… more »
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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.”

    ScyllaDB is an open-source, distributed NoSQL wide-column datastore (a highly scalable NoSQL database), known for its compatibility with Apache Cassandra, and for supporting the same protocols as Cassandra (CQL and Thrift) and the same file formats (SSTable). ScyllaDB is designed for high throughput and low latency, making it suitable for data-intensive applications. Its architecture allows it to deliver remarkable performance on a massive scale, utilizing modern multi-core servers to their fullest potential​

    ScyllaDB utilizes a similar architecture, data format, and query language as Apache Cassandra, providing compatibility while dramatically improving speed and scalability.

    The key advantages of ScyllaDB include its rewritten C++ implementation that eliminates Cassandra's expensive Java garbage collection pauses, built-in caching for fast access to frequently used data, and shard-aware drivers for direct routing of requests. This enables it to fully leverage modern multi-core servers for massive parallelism. The community is active and the latest major release, ScyllaDB Enterprise 2023.1.0 LTS, incorporates over 5,000 code commits focused on enhancing capabilities.

    ScyllaDB supports wide-column data modeling for fast read performance at scale. It includes integrated monitoring and management tools to track database health and performance. For organizations looking to boost speed and reduce costs for NoSQL workloads, ScyllaDB offers a drop-in replacement for Cassandra that delivers lower latency, higher throughput, and increased scalability with fewer nodes. Its seamless migration path makes switching from Cassandra seamless, requiring minimal code changes.

    Sample Customers
    ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo
    IBM, Investing.com, mParticle, Comcast, GE, Fanatics, Ola, CERN, adgear, Samsung
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Educational Organization9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Educational Organization7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
    Buyer's Guide
    InfluxDB vs. ScyllaDB
    March 2024
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    InfluxDB is ranked 4th in NoSQL Databases with 8 reviews while ScyllaDB is ranked 6th in NoSQL Databases with 2 reviews. InfluxDB is rated 7.6, while ScyllaDB is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of InfluxDB writes "A powerful, lightweight time series database with a simple query language and easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScyllaDB writes "A solution that offers good performance and flexibility to its users". InfluxDB is most compared with MongoDB, Cassandra, Netdata, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and Couchbase, whereas ScyllaDB is most compared with MongoDB, Cassandra, Apache HBase, Couchbase and CouchDB. See our InfluxDB vs. ScyllaDB report.

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