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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. PieCloudDB vs. QuestDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.openpie.comquestdb.iosql.js.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlquestdb.io/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperThomas MuellerOpenPieQuestDB Technology IncAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2005201420122017
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JavaScript APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardnoRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
H2PieCloudDBQuestDBSQL.JSTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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