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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. OpenTenBase vs. QuestDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.64
Rank	#137	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#92	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.monetdb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

questdb.io

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

MonetDB BV

OpenNMS Group

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2018

2004

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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22 October 2024

The future of fast databases: Lessons from a decade of QuestDB
10 October 2024

QuestDB 8.1.2 - Tabs & Balance
8 October 2024

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