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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in Data warehouse environments

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#161	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.63
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

questdb.io

riak.com/products/riak-kv

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs/introduction

www.sadasengine.com/index.php/downloads/documentation-columnar-db

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

Developer

QuestDB Limited

Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2009

2006

1992

Current release

2.1.0, April 2015

8.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

over HTTP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript and Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable consistency for N replicas

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

Application metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0.
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News

QuestDB 6.3 Release Highlights
9 May 2022

Time Series Data Analytics with QuestDB and Cube
26 April 2022

Demo of live crypto data streamed with QuestDB and Grafana
12 April 2022

Calling on our community members to help us support Ukraine
7 March 2022

QuestDB 6.2 January release, SQL JIT compiler
27 January 2022

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5 May 2016, ZDNet

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13 January 2015, Data Center Knowledge

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29 September 2016, Opensource.com

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22 July 2021, Enterprise Storage Forum

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15 February 2022, CRN Australia

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