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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score2.56
Rank#106  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnquestdb.iorocksdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperEsgynQuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.Tobias OetikerSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20152014201319991994
Current release9.4.0, June 20241.8.0, 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL with time-series extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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 filesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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