Use case

Databases for Financial tick data

High-frequency market data with time-series analytics. The leading options are TimescaleDB, QuestDB and kdb+.

20 active · ordered by fit for this category, then WhichDB Score

TimescaleDBTime-Series

PostgreSQL extension adding hypertables, columnar compression and continuous aggregates for time series.

47.1
QuestDBTime-Seriesopen source

Columnar time-series SQL database built for market data and very high ingest rates.

34.1
kdb+Time-Series

Column-store time-series engine with the q language, a fixture of capital-markets tick data.

31.8
ArcticDBTime-Series

Serverless DataFrame database from Man Group: Pandas in, versioned columnar data on S3 out.

14.4
DolphinDBTime-Series

Distributed time-series database and scripting platform for quant finance and industrial analytics.

11.6
quasardbTime-Series

Distributed columnar time-series database, now sold as Quasar, for tick, sensor and industrial data.

6.6
ActivePivotColumnar / OLAP

In-memory OLAP aggregation engine for bank risk analytics, renamed Atoti Server by ActiveViam.

3.4
KerfTime-Seriesopen source

Columnar tick database and array language from Kona's author, with JSON and SQL syntax; open-sourced in 2022.

1.3
1010dataColumnar / OLAPmanaged

Hosted columnar analytics platform with a spreadsheet-style interface, owned by SymphonyAI since 2023.

0.0
SAP ASE (Sybase)Relational

The original Sybase T-SQL engine, still running trading and SAP systems but firmly in SAP's sunset lane.

28.3
Comdb2Relationalopen source

Bloomberg's clustered relational database with optimistic concurrency and synchronous replication.

10.9
Chronicle MapKey-Valueopen source

Off-heap, memory-mapped key-value store for Java with microsecond latency and cross-process sharing.

8.7
AerospikeKey-Valueopen source

Flash-optimized distributed key-value and document database for predictable sub-millisecond latency at scale.

40.4
Google Cloud SpannerRelationalmanaged

Google's globally consistent, horizontally scaling SQL service with graph, vector and full-text built in.

34.5
TarantoolKey-Valueopen source

In-memory database and Lua application server in one process, with an optional disk engine.

21.2
Volt Active Data (VoltDB)Relational

In-memory, partitioned SQL engine running Java stored procedures serially for millisecond decisioning.

20.7
Oracle TimesTenRelational

Oracle's in-memory relational database: microsecond SQL, PL/SQL, and a cache tier for Oracle Database.

9.5
AltibaseRelational

Korean hybrid in-memory/on-disk RDBMS for telecom and finance, closed-source again since 2023.

5.5
KDB.AIVector

KX's vector database for time-aware AI search, with temporal similarity and hybrid retrieval.

4.9
eXtremeDBKey-Value

Embedded in-memory and hybrid database for devices, real-time systems and time-series analytics.

4.0

deprecated, discontinued & research · 2

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