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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperKineticaMonetDB BVRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20132012200419932014
Current release7.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++CJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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BoltDBKineticaMonetDBOpenQM infoalso called QMQuestDB
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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