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DBMS > QuestDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Trafodion vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Trafodion vs. WakandaDB

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitequestdb.iosplicemachine.comtrafodion.apache.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncSplice MachineApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWakanda SAS
Initial release2014201420142012
Current release3.1, March 20212.3.0, February 20192.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaC++, JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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QuestDBSplice MachineTrafodionWakandaDB
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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