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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

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.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.jaguardb.com

questdb.io

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

questdb.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

FatCloud

GeoSpock

DataJaguar, Inc.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2015

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.3 July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL with time-series extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users can be defined per table

rights management via user accounts

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