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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. JSqlDb vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.69
Rank#115  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitejsqldb.org (offline)questdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Konrad von BackstromQuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly SybaseSTS Soft SC
Initial release20092018201419922011
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20160.8, December 201817, July 20154.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
HypertableJSqlDbQuestDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSTSdb
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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