Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Compelling offering in a competitive landscape with impressive support"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

- stellar query performance

- comprehensive documentation

- easy to setup and use

- best in class support

- compares favourably to KDB, once they have missing features, I can see it being actively replacing KDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

- I have struggled with write performance. its not easy to see why.

- its a very competitive landscape and I have used several databases, such as KDB. lack of features such as, lack of support for "DELETE WHERE" can put users away Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ernst Holger A.
EA
Ernst Holger A.
Senior Data Scientist MSAT
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The best database solution to store time series data in IIOT"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

QuestDB is mind-boggling fast both on ingress and egress, enabling new high-frequency use cases in IIOT. Today industrial time series data are highly compressed to achieve fast access for reporting, dashboarding and analytics. It leaves out a lot of use cases that operate on shorter time scales. We tested several databases, and QuestDB ranked at the top.

I also like the active user community and discussing topics with peers on the slack channel! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

QuestDB is missing some features, such as horizontal scaling and the option to delete data. These features are on the roadmapand once completed, it will be challenging to find a more competitive TSDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stelian N.
SN
Stelian N.
Regional Research Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It's a simple and a fast DB with a phenomenal team behind it."
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

It's super fast yet super simple.

This combination is a rare find and hard to pull off so elegantly.

They seem to have done the base product well; building on this should be exciting!

Also, their free online support makes a big difference to any open-source user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

It's still an early product, so many features are naturally missing. It's not a big deal for some, but it's a deal-breaker for larger-scale production use-cases. That's changing thought. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kovid R.
KR
Kovid R.
Head of Solutions Architecture
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Feature rich, promising, and powerful Time-series Database"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

A highly performant time-series database was the need of the hour. QuestDB is great at processing time-series data in sub 100 ms time. With its support for the InfluxDB line protocol, streaming and batch ingestion of data is a cakewalk. This helps the most when the data is coming from lightweight devices. I like the SQL support that QuestDB has, especially with the extensions. It is worth mentioning that installing and running QuestDB on commodity hardware is really easy for those who want to explore it. The browser-based UI makes the whole process completely hassle-free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

I haven't used the database in production yet. After having explored the SQL capabilities, support for InfluxDB line protocol, and a couple of other features, I haven't come across anything that I really dislike till now. The one thing that can be improved is probably the visualization capability in the browser console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

🤷‍♂️ David G. S.
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🤷‍♂️ David G. S.
Principal Developer Advocate
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"QuestDB for IoT"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

QuestDB is super fast, and allows me to store and query enormous volumes of data very quickly. I have sensors writing data to QuestDB more than once per second, and it is a significant volume of data. I've not had any data dropped, and I can query hundreds of thousands of rows of data in well under a second with complex SQL queries.

The easy integration with Telegraf for data ingestion has made data collection on the underlying platform that I run QuestDB on.

I especially like that QuestDB can ingest InfluxDB Line Protocol unchanged. This has made a transition from InfluxDB to QuestDB fairly seamless.

Having a single, small binary to install is very convenient.

Now that I can display the results of my data queries in Grafana I'm able to build highly functional dashboards for displaying and reacting to IoT sensor data in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

I wish there was support for ARM64 architecture.

I've had a couple of instances of runaway log files, but Vlad and the team is amazingly responsive in fixing things.

Overall, I'm extremely impressed with, and happy with, QuestDB for my IoT deployments.

I do wish there were an alerting framework built-in, as I've had to create an external framework for generating service and data alerts, but I expect as the product matures these things will arrive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alexis R.
AR
Alexis R.
Partner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I'm amazed how fast it runs"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

I used various time-series databases for an IoT sensor project, but I always ran into performance issues, and they were cumbersome to use. That's until I tried QuestDB; I actually couldn't believe it ran so fast that I thought I made a mistake in my SQL code. The team is super responsive and friendly as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

I'm just waiting for more sharding features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yitaek H.
YH
Yitaek H.
Director of Research and Development
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Fast open-source timeseries database"
4/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

QuestDB is a performant timeseries database able to ingest large amounts of data and query in ms. The console UI is also intuitive as easy to use. A lot of the Postgres features are already supported so no need to learn a new query language. I have not tried out other ingestion methods (e.g. influx line protocol), but it's definitely nice to have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

Kubernetes deployment options are currently limited. There is a Helm chart available, but I would like to see other features like replication or running in multiple regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gábor B.
GB
Gábor B.
Senior Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use on every scale"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

I really like the simplicity and ease of use without compromises for performance. It was a very clever idea to implement the Postgres connection protocol and SQL interface; thanks to that, it is possible to use the database with any language which has built-in or third-party support for that.

Also, the interactive web console shipped with the database helps a lot to discover features of the database, generate charts, and gain more experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

The documentation is well written, extensive, and helpful, though it could be organized a bit better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PZ
Peter Z.
Sole trader
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Looks great for your project, waiting more enterprise features"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

I’ve liked SQL query language, easier to start with. Also easy to upload large CSV files and query it quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

Hard to tell from my personal perspective, but I’d expect Quest is working on replication and building visualisation capabilities that are critical at larger deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jerome R.
JR
Jerome R.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"The best open source time series database"
5/5
What do you like best about QuestDB?

The open source nature, the availability of the team, the speed at which they release new features. Finally, the ease of use and performance of the software itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about QuestDB?

No replication yet, and sometimes the query language lacks some mathematical functions. But this is improving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.