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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB vs. searchxml vs. Tarantool

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOpen-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 serverIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseprometheus.ioquestdb.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9prometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)QuestDB Technology Incinformationpartners gmbhVK
Initial release19912015201420152008
Current release5.71.02.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalNumeric data onlyyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.yesno infoImport of XML data possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.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
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoon the application serverLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnononoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesmultiple readers, single writerACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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jBASEPrometheusQuestDBsearchxmlTarantool
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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