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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.89
Rank	#146	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#87	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	42.95
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs/introduction

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_ASE

Developer

QuestDB Limited

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2014

2013

1987

Current release

7.10.2, March 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

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

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable consistency for N replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Migrating from Relational Databases to Time-series Databases
24 March 2023

MongoDB Time Series Benchmark and Review
20 March 2023

Loading Pandas DataFrames into QuestDB
9 March 2023

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3 March 2023

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2 March 2023

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