DBMS > jBASE vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database

questdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.oracle.com/en/database

questdb.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

QuestDB Technology Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1991

1993

1980

2014

2015

Current release

5.7

3.4-12

23c, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

over HTTP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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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

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