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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. Riak TS vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

questdb.io

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Simer Plaha

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2015

2018

2020

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Erlang

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

selectable replication factor

none

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 datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

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