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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. Pinecone vs. QuestDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scalePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.pinecone.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperFatCloudGeoSpockDataJaguar, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2012201520192014
Current release2.0, September 20193.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC#Java, JavascriptC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsWindowshostedLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PythonC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnonono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablerights management via user accounts
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FatDBGeoSpockJaguarDBPineconeQuestDB
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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