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DBMS > QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitequestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.TeradataQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2014201320052009
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialcommercial
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++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
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 infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptR packages
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
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 filesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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QuestDBSequoiadbTeradata AsterYaacomo
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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