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DBMS > Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen Source Time Series DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitequasar.aiquestdb.iosiridb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.siridb.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperquasardbQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesCesbitSiteWhere
Initial release20092014200920172010
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangCJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binaryyesnoyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsnorestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Securitysimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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QuasardbQuestDBRiak KVSiriDBSiteWhere
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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