DBMS > JSqlDb vs. QuestDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. QuestDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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 high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

questdb.io

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

QuestDB Technology Inc

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

2022

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

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

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

over HTTP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and Roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Combine Java and Rust Code Coverage in a Polyglot Project
10 September 2024

Weather data visualization and forecasting with QuestDB, Kafka and Grafana
4 September 2024

Building a new vector based storage model
22 August 2024

Calibrating VWAP executions with QuestDB and Grafana
16 August 2024

Write Time: a call for community writers
13 August 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.