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DBMS > QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. YDB

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitequestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhereydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly SybaseMireoYandex
Initial release2014199220202019
Current release17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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#
C++
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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QuestDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSpaceTimeYDB
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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