InfluxDB vs MySQL comparison

InfluxData and Oracle are both solutions in the Open Source Databases category. InfluxData is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.5, while Oracle is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3. InfluxData holds a 4.9% mindshare in OSD, compared to Oracle’s 9.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of InfluxData users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

MySQL and InfluxDB are popular databases competing in the database solutions category. MySQL appears to have the upper hand in terms of pricing and support, while InfluxDB stands out for its features and scalability, appealing for specific use cases despite higher costs.

Features: MySQL is known for its multi-threaded architecture, triggers, replication, and full-text search, making it flexible and reliable for small to medium applications and popular in web development. InfluxDB excels in time-series database capabilities, efficient data handling, and strong performance with visualization tools, although it may lack some relational features compared to MySQL.

Room for Improvement: MySQL users highlight challenges with InnoDB complexity, limited support for advanced RDBMS features, and replication reliability. InfluxDB could improve with better clustering, user-friendly interfaces, and comprehensive documentation for easier integration with other tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: MySQL offers flexibility in deployment across various environments and extensive community support due to its open-source nature. InfluxDB supports diverse deployment options, though users seek better integration. MySQL relies on community forums for support, while InfluxDB users may face higher support costs.

Pricing and ROI: MySQL is cost-effective with a free open-source version and paid enterprise options, offering solid ROI for basic database functions without licensing fees. InfluxDB, also open-source, may incur scaling costs with recent price increases impacting its value for extensive deployments. Both can provide good returns depending on business needs and technical demands.

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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

5.4

InfluxDB mainly improved data management efficiency and streamlined processes, reducing project management personnel, but economic advantages varied.

Sentiment score

6.2

MySQL offers cost benefits with open-source use, achieving up to 60% ROI, despite challenges in precise financial calculations.

It simplifies processes and reduces the need for additional employees.

Mugeesh Husain

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

Time saved is there, as I mentioned, because we have an analytics system from where we get alerting and monitoring.

Manas Kashyap

Senior DevOps engineer at Elevenxcapital

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I have seen a return on investment with MySQL, as it allows us to manage with fewer employees, focusing on business logic rather than database management.

AmitVerma4

Software Developer at 8 Gallery India

If we want to scale to 30 or 40 lakh people, then it is still possible, covering three to four million users.

Pranay Jain

Senior software developer at Simplifyvms

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.7

Users find community and documentation helpful, with slower support response times unless premium support is utilized for quicker assistance.

Sentiment score

6.8

MySQL users primarily rely on community resources for support, with official Oracle support noted as costly but effective.

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.

Mugeesh Husain

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

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I would rate the documentation and online support a 10 out of 10.

reviewer2599590

Student at a university with 10,001+ employees

We have no issues and usually receive timely responses.

Muzzamil Hussain

Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan

Oracle provides customer support, and we can submit service requests that they solve on a 24/7 basis.

Pranay Jain

Senior software developer at Simplifyvms

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

InfluxDB is scalable with efficient data management; high throughput challenges may need systems like Kafka for optimization.

Sentiment score

6.7

MySQL scalability depends on the specific environment, with challenges arising in larger applications and benefits from cloud solutions.

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

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

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

InfluxDB's scalability is fine for me; I gather a lot of metrics and have not had any issues.

reviewer2778060

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

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Meeting scalability requirements through cloud computing is an expensive affair.

Ravi Kant-Sharma

Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

If the database foundation is very good with well-thought-out table structure and everything, then scalability is easy.

Pranay Jain

Senior software developer at Simplifyvms

MySQL's scalability is currently adequate, as we have increased operations from ten thousand to twelve thousand devices, and it is working fine for us.

AmitVerma4

Software Developer at 8 Gallery India

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

InfluxDB is stable and reliable, with minor issues resolved through integration, despite AWS and Azure China difficulties.

Sentiment score

7.7

MySQL is generally stable and reliable but faces issues with large data operations and server overload, needing regular maintenance.

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

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

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

Btece Lodi

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

After integrating Kafka, it never broke again, as Kafka handled messages and metrics appropriately, decreasing the message throughput.

Sayak Roy

Deployment Engineer at Derq

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We face certain integration issues, especially when we integrate the database with security solutions like IBM QRadar.

Muzzamil Hussain

Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan

The product that I am working on is quite stable because we have been using it for three years, and it hasn't given us any problems.

Pranay Jain

Senior software developer at Simplifyvms

From my experience, MySQL was pretty stable.

reviewer2599590

Student at a university with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

InfluxDB's complexity and limited documentation hinder integration and scalability; improvements are needed in features, pricing, and availability.

MySQL needs improved scalability, performance, integration, replication, user interface, security, monitoring tools, documentation, backup, and clustering.

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.

Henning Jansen

Senior System Developer at Norled

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

reviewer2778060

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

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It could be more beneficial if MySQL can enhance its data masking functionality in the same way it has improved data encryption.

Muzzamil Hussain

Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan

Oracle could improve on scalability.

Ravi Kant-Sharma

Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The load balancer, MySQL LB, which is used to connect to the application, lacks clear documentation.

Prabir Kumar Kundu

SR AVP–Presales Cloud & Platform Management Services at Path Infotech ltd

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Setup Cost

InfluxDB's open-source version is cost-effective, but cloud and on-premise solutions require licenses, impacting overall costs.

MySQL's free community edition is popular, while the paid Enterprise edition offers advanced features and lower costs than competitors.

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

Henning Jansen

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.

Mugeesh Husain

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for InfluxDB was great, as I did not use any license.

reviewer2778060

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

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Oracle has different components, so if you need security, you have to procure a different license, but here everything is inbuilt and it's not costly.

Prabir Kumar Kundu

SR AVP–Presales Cloud & Platform Management Services at Path Infotech ltd

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Valuable Features

InfluxDB is a powerful time series database with strong integration, performance, and features for diverse data analysis projects.

MySQL offers fast performance, open-source adaptability, reliability, scalability, and excels in web applications with strong community support.

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.

Henning Jansen

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.

reviewer2761710

Solutions Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

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With Oracle, we have to buy another solution for encryption and masking, but MySQL supports native encryption, which enhances our return on investment.

Muzzamil Hussain

Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan

The main feature we utilize in MySQL is the view, and I can say that it is the most valuable feature for our needs.

AmitVerma4

Software Developer at 8 Gallery India

As an RDBMS, MySQL provides us great capability. For a product growing to large scale like ours, where we currently have around 10 lakh users but will grow to 20, 30, 40 million or more, having a strong database foundation is essential. MySQL provides that.

Pranay Jain

Senior software developer at Simplifyvms

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Categories and Ranking

InfluxDB

Ranking in Open Source Databases

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Non-Relational Databases (1st), Network Monitoring Software (11th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (14th), NoSQL Databases (4th)

MySQL

Ranking in Open Source Databases

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

153

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of InfluxDB is 4.9%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MySQL is 9.7%, down from 12.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Open Source Databases Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
MySQL	9.7%
InfluxDB	4.9%
Other	85.4%

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Featured Reviews

Mugeesh Husain

Team Lead, Software at Energybox

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

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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Pranay Jain

Senior software developer at Simplifyvms

Robust relational data foundation has supported rapid growth and improved user data management

MySQL can be improved in several ways. It has connectivity errors and administration troubles that sometimes occur, though not consistently. MySQL has slow queries; sometimes when I run a query, it scans the whole table, and if the data is very large, it takes too much time to retrieve the data. There can be resource bottlenecks with RAM and CPU usage being a little lower than ideal. Monitoring system metrics is crucial because we need to identify and address these types of issues. Schema designing is another area for improvement, as a poorly designed schema can lead to data redundancy in the future. If I haven't initially planned for a 20 lakh user database and am only working with a 1,000 user case, it will be very problematic because in the future, it will affect the whole table structure, and we will need to change everything. Thorough thinking is necessary before even creating the table. MySQL documentation could be better. Sometimes when I need to find something related to MySQL, the documentation is not very comprehensive. If I have a problem with it, I have to go to Stack Overflow or something similar to get the full detail. Additionally, sometimes when we are connecting to local MySQL, it says we cannot connect to SQL, and I don't know the reason. The error messages are not very helpful, so we have to investigate those cases manually. There are multiple instances of this occurring. Documentation can be better overall. The integration capabilities could be improved slightly. Whatever I have used is working fine for me currently, but it could be a little better. The UI of MySQL Workbench, which I use, is not appealing to me, so it could be improved. MySQL overall is very good, and the foundation is very strong. We can develop features around it and different types of things inside it, which will make it better in the future.

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

10%

University

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	75
Midsize Enterprise	32
Large Enterprise	62

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?

Although I didn't encounter any significant challenges, I think that if there was a NoSQL version of InfluxDB, that would also help because I have used the SQL version. I wish InfluxDB were also av...

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What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?

My main use case for InfluxDB involved working on a LEO satellite KPI monitoring application, where I gathered latency, throughput, packet loss, jitter, and various types of network data for severa...

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Why are MySQL connections encrypted and what is the biggest benefit of this?

MySQL encrypts connections to protect your data and the biggest benefit from this is that nobody can corrupt it. If you move information over a network without encryption, you are endangering it, m...

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Considering that there is a free version of MySQL, would you invest in one of the paid editions?

I may be considered a MySQL veteran since I have been using it since before Oracle bought it and created paid versions. So back in my day, it was all free, it was open-source and the best among sim...

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What is one thing you would improve with MySQL?

One thing I would improve related to MySQL is not within the product itself, but with the guides to it. Before, when it was free, everyone was on their own, seeking tutorials and how-to videos onli...

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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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MySQL is an open-source database known for its ease of use and high performance. It offers features like replication and clustering, making it ideal for diverse applications. Its cost-effectiveness and LAMP integration are key advantages for businesses.

MySQL supports a variety of languages and platforms, providing reliable, scalable data management. Its graphical interface and LAMP architecture integration enhance its usability, while community support further strengthens its appeal. Challenges include scalability issues with large databases, lack of advanced clustering, and limited high-availability features. Complex queries may affect performance, and integration can pose difficulties. The outdated interface and insufficient documentation are also concerns, along with replication and backup reliability issues.

What are MySQL's key features?

Open-source nature: Freely available and customizable.
Cross-platform compatibility: Supports multiple operating systems.
Scalability: Capable of handling large volumes of data.
Replication and clustering: Ensure data redundancy and load balancing.
Full-text search: Provides powerful search capabilities.
LAMP integration: Seamlessly integrates with Linux, Apache, and PHP.

What benefits should users consider?

Cost-effectiveness: Reduces expenses due to its open-source nature.
High performance: Efficiently processes large volumes of data.
Active community support: Access to a wide range of resources and expertise.
Versatile use cases: Suitable for varied applications including web development and IoT.

MySQL is widely implemented in industries such as web development, e-commerce, and finance. It's used for managing dynamic websites, powering e-commerce platforms, and supporting financial applications. Its compatibility with PHP and cost-effectiveness make it suitable for CMS platforms like WordPress. With cloud services integration, MySQL is a backend choice for scalable applications in various sectors.

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