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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)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A 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 model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2013

1994

2016

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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News

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23 May 2024

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8 May 2024

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6 May 2024

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12 April 2024

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8 April 2024

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