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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. QuestDB vs. SQLite vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platformTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.ioquestdb.iowww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioquestdb.io/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.tdengine.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedQuestDB Technology IncDwayne Richard HippTDEngine, previously Taos DataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172014200020192014
Current release3.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20243.0, August 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustCCC++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infodynamic column typesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
ObjectBoxQuestDBSQLiteTDengineTrafodion
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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