When comparing InfluxDB vs VictoriaMetrics, the Slant community recommends InfluxDB for most people. In the question“What are the best time-series databases and/or data stores?” InfluxDB is ranked 3rd while VictoriaMetrics is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose InfluxDB is:
Can be easily visualized with Chronograf or Graphana.
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Pros
Pro Easy visualization and monitoring
Can be easily visualized with Chronograf or Graphana.
Pro Open source
InfluxDB is licensed under the MIT license with source code available on GitHub.
Pro Many official drivers
Drivers written in C#, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Rails, and Ruby are available with many more community written drivers.
Pro Powerful data query & manipulation language: FLUX
FLUX is InfluxDB's new query & manipulation language. It's not at all like SQL (unlike the previous query language) - but is more powerful, testable & development friendly
Pro Pluggable storage model
Pro Fast and cost-effective
VictoriaMetrics requires fewer hardware resources - RAM, CPU, storage - compared to competitors. This allows for saving hardware costs.
Pro Easy to setup and operate
Just start a single binary with the minimum amount of settings.
Pro Different protocols support
Supports metrics' scraping, ingestion and backfilling via the different protocols - see here.
Pro Seamless integration with Prometheus+Grafana
Prometheus may be configured to write data to VictoriaMetrics. Grafana may be configured to query the data directly from VictoriaMetrics using PromQL.
Pro Open source
VictoriaMetrics is free and open source - see here.
Pro Cluster version is free and open source
Cons
Con Loses data when overloaded
Con Poor performance for deletion with predicates
Con Clustering not available with the free version
Unfortunately, clustering is not available with the free version (source).
Con Uses a lot of RAM
Con No same-time insert
No duplicate times.
Con Built from scratch
It is young and it is built from scratch. This means it can contain unpolished code.
Con Doesn't support SQL
It supports only PromQL for querying data.
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