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DBMS > QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websitequestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly SybaseSTS Soft SCJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014199220112019
Current release17, July 20154.0.8, September 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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-standardno
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QuestDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSTSdbXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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