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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. QuestDB vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteprometheus.ioquestdb.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperQuestDB Technology Incinformationpartners gmbhAlex Kashirin
Initial release2015201420152020
Current release1.00.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.no infoImport of XML data possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 filesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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PrometheusQuestDBsearchxmlSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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