DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

opentsdb.net

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Cesbit

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2011

2014

2010

2017

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based 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
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

Numeric data

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 with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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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