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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. InfluxDB vs. QuestDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#278  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewquestdb.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbquestdb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2014201320142009
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20222.7.6, April 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonepartitioning by range, list and by hashSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID for single-table writesAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousers and table-level permissions
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AlaSQLFujitsu Enterprise PostgresInfluxDBQuestDBRethinkDB
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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