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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. QuestDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousequestdb.iowww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperHypertable Inc.IBMQuestDB Technology IncSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2009201420142006
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20168.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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HypertableIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBQuestDBSadas Engine
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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