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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#204	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#87	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#265	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#123	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

questdb.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2014

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

over HTTP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple password-based access control

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