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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTenBase vs. QuestDB

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Name

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

griddb.net

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

questdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

Current release

5.1, August 2022

V12

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

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

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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22 August 2024

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16 August 2024

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13 August 2024

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Recent citations in the news

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21 May 2024, Microsoft

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26 June 2024, Microsoft

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SQL Extensions for Time-Series Data in QuestDB
11 January 2021, Towards Data Science

QuestDB snares $12M Series A with hosted version coming soon
3 November 2021, TechCrunch

QuestDB gets $12M Series A funding amid growing interest in time-series databases
3 November 2021, SiliconANGLE News

Read the Pitch Deck Database Startup QuestDB Used to Raise $12 Million
11 November 2021, Business Insider

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10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

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