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QuestDB

The fastest open source time series database
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What is QuestDB?

QuestDB is an open source database for time series, events, and analytical workloads with a primary focus on performance. It enhances ANSI SQL with time series extensions.
QuestDB is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
QuestDB is an open source tool with 14.6K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to QuestDB's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses QuestDB?

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Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use QuestDB.
Pros of QuestDB
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No dependencies
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Real-time analytics
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Open source
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Postgres wire protocol
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Time-series data analysis
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SQL
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Fast
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Embedded
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InfluxDB line protocol
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HTTP API
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High-performance

QuestDB's Features

  • Relational model for time series
  • SIMD accelerated queries
  • Time partitioned
  • Heavy parallelization
  • Scalable ingestion
  • Immediate consistency
  • Time series and relational joins
  • Native InfluxDB line protocol
  • Grafana through Postgres wire support
  • Schema or schema-free
  • Aggregations and down sampling

QuestDB Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to QuestDB?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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