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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hive vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database servicedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbhive.apache.orgopentsdb.netquasar.aiquestdb.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20192012201120092014
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Amazon DocumentDBHiveOpenTSDBQuasardbQuestDB
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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