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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Axibase vs. CrateDB vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed Database based on LuceneA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecratedb.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgcratedb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationCrateQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2015201320132014
Current release1.0.0, September 202315585
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions (Javascript)no
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accounts
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Apache PinotAxibaseCrateDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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