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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GridDB vs. Manticore Search vs. QuestDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgriddb.netmanticoresearch.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.griddb.netmanual.manticoresearch.comquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseToshiba CorporationManticore SoftwareQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1999201320172014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.1, August 20226.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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AltibaseGridDBManticore SearchQuestDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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