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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. RDF4J vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2004

2020

2018

Current release

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Java

C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Java
PHP
Python

Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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22 August 2024

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16 August 2024

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13 August 2024

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SQL Extensions for Time-Series Data in QuestDB
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3 November 2021, TechCrunch

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