DBMS > MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TiDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TiDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

pingcap.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP, formerly Sybase

PingCAP, Inc.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1995

2014

1994

2016

1998

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

8.2.0, July 2024

Release 22.1

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

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.

Implementation language

C and C++

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

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

PL/SQL

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)

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

full support since version 6.6

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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