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Name

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#146	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#87	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb

questdb.io/docs/introduction

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Circonus LLC.

QuestDB Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2014

2013

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.10.2, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Configurable consistency for N replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID for single-table writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

Application metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0.
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