DBMS > OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

questdb.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

QuestDB Technology Inc

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1993

2014

2009

2020

2014

Current release

3.4-12

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Erlang

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

selectable replication factor

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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