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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. QuestDB vs. TerminusDB

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

questdb.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

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

QuestDB Technology Inc

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2014

2018

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

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

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

over HTTP

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Journaling Streams

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

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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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