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DBMS > DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. QuestDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score6.71
Rank#51  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#212  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.10
Rank#84  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.geomesa.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201820142014
Current release1.0.0, June 20245.0.1, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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