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DBMS > BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquestdb.ioswaydb.simer.auwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.ioquestdb.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQuestDB Technology IncSimer PlahaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20151993201420181998
Current release3.4-1211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnonoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectOpenQM infoalso called QMQuestDBSwayDBTimesTen
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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