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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

questdb.io/docs

realm.io/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

CNRS

QuestDB Technology Inc

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2014

2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Supported programming languages

Java

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

over HTTP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

yes

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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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