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DBMS > Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. QuestDB vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. QuestDB vs. RisingWave

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
questdb.iowww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.heavy.aiquestdb.io/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.QuestDB Technology IncRisingWave Labs
Initial release2012201620142022
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.10, January 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++ and CUDAJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Roles
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BangdbHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022QuestDBRisingWave
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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