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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comquestdb.io/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperCognitectQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SCTranswarp
Initial release201220142011
Current release1.0.7075, December 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID 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 developmentyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnono
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DatomicQuestDBSTSdbTranswarp ArgoDB
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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