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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWidely used RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­databasequasar.aiquestdb.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasedoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOraclequasardbQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122011198020092014
Current release3.1.3, April 202223c, September 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPLcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possiblenono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono infocan be realized in PL/SQLwith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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