QuestDB

Data

time series database

SHOW HN2019

22points
10comments
#1,133of 2,195 in 2019
Top 52%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Performance on par with kdb and faster at resampling

    From 1 comment
    • We stay on par with KDB in most cases we tested, exempt for resampling of time series (xbar in kdb) where we are much faster
      bluestreak on HN

Objections

  • No high availability or horizontal scalability yet

    From 2 comments
    • QuestDB has relational data model supporting larger range of data types. We use SQL for all queries, have SQL optimiser and provide useful error reporting. All accessible over…
      bluestreak on HN
    • Back in 2012, my former boss forced me to use marklogic as a database to ingest and help display positional data in real-time. Unable to get marklogic to work without building…
      bluestreak on HN

Questions

  • How does performance compare to kdb

    From 1 comment
  • How is data consistency achieved

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting project, how do you manage to achieve consistency of the data?
      woodyHood on HN
  • Why Java was chosen

    From 1 comment
    • I understand, that the choice was made 5 years ago, but why Java?
      priezz on HN
  • How it compares to InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite

    From 1 comment
    • How does it compare to existing time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or even Graphite?
      m3slo on HN

Alternatives named

  • kdb

    From 1 comment
  • InfluxDB

    From 1 comment
    • How does it compare to existing time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or even Graphite?
      m3slo on HN
  • Prometheus

    From 1 comment
    • How does it compare to existing time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or even Graphite?
      m3slo on HN
  • Graphite

    From 1 comment
    • How does it compare to existing time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or even Graphite?
      m3slo on HN
  • MarkLogic

    From 1 comment
    • Back in 2012, my former boss forced me to use marklogic as a database to ingest and help display positional data in real-time. Unable to get marklogic to work without building…
      bluestreak on HN
  • Redis

    From 1 comment
    • Back in 2012, my former boss forced me to use marklogic as a database to ingest and help display positional data in real-time. Unable to get marklogic to work without building…
      bluestreak on HN

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