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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. Splice Machine vs. YDB

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netquestdb.iosplicemachine.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksydb.tech/­en/­docs
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology IncSplice MachineYandex
Initial release2011201420142019
Current release3.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavano
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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OpenTSDBQuestDBSplice MachineYDB
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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