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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

questdb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

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

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

questdb.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

QuestDB Technology Inc

STS Soft SC

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2014

2011

2014

2011

1998

Current release

23.3, December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

over HTTP

C#
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

off heap cache

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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