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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tibero vs. TigerGraph

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpatial extension of SQLiteA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitequestdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmltechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncAlessandro FurieriTmaxSoft
Initial release2014200820032017
Current release5.0.0, August 20206, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C and AssemblerC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)yes
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesACIDACIDACID
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 filesyesno infoplanned for next versionno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Role-based access control
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QuestDBSpatiaLiteTiberoTigerGraph
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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