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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netquestdb.iosphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperOpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20142011201420012012
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono
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NewtsOpenTSDBQuestDBSphinxSQL.JS
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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