DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. QuestDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. QuestDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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Name

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

Description

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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.48
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

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

questdb.io

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

QuestDB Technology Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2014

2000

1987

Current release

1703

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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 with time-series extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

over HTTP

Java
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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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