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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

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Description

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.98
Rank	#87	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

questdb.io

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

questdb.io/docs

Developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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 with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

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

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Recent citations in the news

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12 November 2024, Adafruit Blog

SQL Extensions for Time-Series Data in QuestDB
11 January 2021, Towards Data Science

QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database
2 July 2020, TechCrunch

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3 December 2020, Developer News

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