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DBMS > EJDB vs. GBase vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GBase vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. QuestDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaopennms.github.io/­newtsquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMOpenNMS GroupQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122004200020142014
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, Java, PythonJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
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 infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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EJDBGBaseNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMNewtsQuestDB
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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