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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbquasar.aiquestdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperquasardbQuestDB Technology IncSiteWhere
Initial release2019200920142010
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.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 proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)with Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Amazon DocumentDBQuasardbQuestDBSiteWhere
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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