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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. QuestDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA 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 modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comquestdb.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comquestdb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseCCRi and othersKineticaQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release19992014201220142009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, May 20247.1, August 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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 proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID for single-table writesAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousers and table-level permissions
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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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