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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. SingleStore vs. SWC-DB vs. Trino

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.iowww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
trino.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docsdocs.singlestore.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperSpotifyQuestDB Technology IncSingleStore Inc.Alex KashirinTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20142014201320202012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release8.5, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infohash partitioningShardingdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesSQL standard access control
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HeroicQuestDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTrino
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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