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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak TS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitequestdb.iordf4j.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2014200420152009
Current release3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
PHP
Python
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
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono
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QuestDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameRiak TSTinkerGraph
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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