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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­bolthbase.apache.orgquestdb.iorocksdb.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetQuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20132008201420132019
Current release2.3.4, January 20218.11.4, April 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersnoyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID for single-table writesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyes
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BoltDBHBaseQuestDBRocksDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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