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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.esgyn.cnquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCognitectEsgynQuestDB Technology IncOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012201520142015
Current release1.0.7075, December 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++, JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava Stored ProceduresnoErlang
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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DatomicEsgynDBQuestDBRiak TS
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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