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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata vs. ToroDB

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpatial extension of SQLiteA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitequestdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.teradata.com
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncAlessandro FurieriTeradata8Kdata
Initial release2014200819842016
Current release5.0.0, August 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-lesshosted
Linux
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesACIDACIDno
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 filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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QuestDBSpatiaLiteTeradataToroDB
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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