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DBMS > BigObject vs. Newts vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Newts vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioopennms.github.io/­newtsquestdb.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.OpenNMS GroupQuestDB Technology IncMireo
Initial release2015201420142020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes
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BigObjectNewtsQuestDBSpaceTime
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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