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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. QuestDB

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/questdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationCirconus LLC.QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172014
Current release11.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in Luano
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nononoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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HyprcubdIngresIRONdbQuestDB
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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