DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Couchbase vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Couchbase vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.couchbase.com

questdb.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.couchbase.com

questdb.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Atos Convergence Creators

Couchbase, Inc.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2016

2011

2014

2013

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1703

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

LDAP

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

cell division

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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