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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ittia.com

questdb.io

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2007

2014

2015

Current release

8.7

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

over HTTP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

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