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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2004

2014

2013

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

yes

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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