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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitequestdb.iorethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhereSimer PlahaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20142009201020182016
Current release2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++JavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnono
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 indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java 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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono
More information provided by the system vendor
QuestDBRethinkDBSiteWhereSwayDBTerarkDB
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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