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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. VoltDB

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiquestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupquasardbQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142009201420132010
Current release3.14.1, January 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSONJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptJava
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transactionACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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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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