DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#334  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#137  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgquasar.aiquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201520092014
Current release0.11.0, September 20223.13.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial 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 servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
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 proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByes
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 files
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PinotQuasardbQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
» more
Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
» more
Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
» more
Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
» more
News

QuestDB Release Week #4
24 November 2023

Building a faster hash table for high performance SQL joins
23 November 2023

Is all data time series data?
21 November 2023

Solving duplicate data with performant deduplication
16 November 2023

QuestDB + Hacktoberfest 2023: 10 Years of Hacking
3 October 2023

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache PinotQuasardbQuestDB
Recent citations in the news

Speed of Apache Pinot at the Cost of Cloud Object Storage with ...
16 August 2023, InfoQ.com

StarTree Announces Integration between Apache Pinot and Delta ...
20 June 2023, Datanami

Apache Pinot Uncorks Real-Time Data for Ad-Tech Firm
9 March 2023, Datanami

Java News Roundup: JDK 21, GraalVM for JDK 21, Apache Pinot ...
26 September 2023, InfoQ.com

Building Latency Sensitive User Facing Analytics via Apache Pinot
28 June 2021, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

I create machine learning. It's revolutionising data analysis
1 December 2023, Cosmos

What Is The Hottest Place In The Universe?
30 November 2023, IFLScience

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Patch Notes Include Metro System ...
4 December 2023, IGN

Host galaxies of ultra-strong Mg ii absorbers at z ∼ 0.7
4 December 2023, Oxford Academic

Quasar Partners with PTC to Empower IoT Customers with High ...
8 September 2023, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

金融市场数据至上:QuestDB 为您的数据提供最优解| 开源日报No.81 ...
20 November 2023, CSDN

5 Awesome Java Projects People Don't Know About Vol 3 — Time ...
20 April 2023, Medium

QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database
2 July 2020, TechCrunch

Read the Pitch Deck Database Startup QuestDB Used to Raise $12 ...
11 November 2021, Business Insider

Comparing Different Time-Series Databases
10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Staff Software Engineer - RQL
Rippling, San Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer - RQL
Rippling, Remote

Senior Software Engineer - RQL
Rippling, San Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Rippling, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
MixMode, Remote

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here