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QuestDB
High-performance time-series database with SQL support
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Scalability
high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
easy
Maturity
stable
Languages: Java, C++, SQL
Architecture: time-series, column-store
When to Use
- +Time-series focus
- +High ingestion rates
- +SQL preferred
When Not to Use
- -General purpose
- -Need large ecosystem
Strengths
- Extremely fast ingestion
- SQL support
- Low resource usage
Weaknesses
- Specialized use case
- Smaller community
Operations
Maintenance
low
Monitoring
low
Backup/Recovery
simple
Hosting: self-hosted, managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Database
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- freemium (free tier)
- Community
- small
- Docs Quality
- good
- Trend
- rapidly growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- low
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlarge
Use Cases
- Time-series
- Financial data
- IoT
- Real-time analytics
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