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System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. TDengine

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NameMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.81
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitemariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
opennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aigithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarygithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
OpenNMS GroupquasardbTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995201420092019
Current release11.3.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3nonono
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage enginenoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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MariaDBNewtsQuasardbTDengine
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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