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DBMS > QuestDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitequestdb.iorethinkdb.comsqream.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SQream TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release2014200920172011
Current release2.4.1, August 20202022.1.6, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions in Pythonno
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding inforange basedhorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsno
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