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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comquasar.aiquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperEnterpriseDBquasardbQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20052009201420091994
Current release14, December 20213.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesnoyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C 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
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoErlangyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EDB PostgresQuasardbQuestDBRiak KVSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
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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