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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

questdb.io

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

questdb.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

QuestDB Technology Inc

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1995

2014

2019

2008

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

over HTTP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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