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System Properties Comparison MongoDB vs. QuestDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0

Relational DBMS

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Score	425.36
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	2.49
Rank	#135	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#143	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mongodb.com

questdb.io

www.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.mongodb.com/manual

questdb.io/docs/introduction

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

MongoDB, Inc

QuestDB Limited

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2009

2014

2003

Current release

6.0.5, March 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

over HTTP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Configurable consistency for N replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

through memory mapped files

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

MongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Relational model with native time series support Column based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, GE Healthcare, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile...
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Application metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

365+ million downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month handling...
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Licensing and pricing models

MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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Apache 2.0.
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News

Getting Started with QuestDB Cloud
1 June 2023

Exploring Financial Tick Data with Jupyter Notebook and Pandas
22 May 2023

Time-Series Data Visualization with Apache Superset and QuestDB
19 May 2023

Optimizing the Optimizer: the Time-Series Benchmark Suite
18 May 2023

QuestDB 7.1.2 Release
16 May 2023

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