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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. QuestDB vs. RavenDB vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Databasea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbquestdb.ioravendb.netsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbquestdb.io/­docsravendb.net/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaQuestDB Technology IncHibernating RhinosSQream Technologies
Initial release201420102017
Current release5.4, July 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Shardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBQuestDBRavenDBSQream DB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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