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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.marklogic.comquasar.aiquestdb.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.marklogic.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.quasardbQuestDB Technology IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release2001200920142014
Current release11.0, December 20223.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL92SQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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