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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.37
Rank	#247	Overall
	#19	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#185	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#307	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

questdb.io

sql.js.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs/introduction

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

doc.wakanda.org/home2.en.html#/Datastore/Introduction.200-588937.en.html

Developer

QuestDB Limited

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license 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

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

over HTTP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable consistency for N replicas

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

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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

Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

Application metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0.
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