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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

2009

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

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 (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
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 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

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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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