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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score23.95
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.00
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#115  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsprometheus.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MicrosoftQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1991201620152014
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyesno
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jBASEMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousePrometheusQuestDB
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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