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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. QuestDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

QuestDB Technology Inc

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2017

2014

2004

2013

2022

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

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

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

over HTTP

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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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

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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