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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Solr vs. STSdb

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitequestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncSAP, SybaseApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release2014198720062011
Current release16.09.5.0, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC and C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava and Transact-SQLJava pluginsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
QuestDBSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESolrSTSdb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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