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
PostgreSQL extension adding hypertables, columnar compression and continuous aggregates for time series.
Columnar time-series SQL database built for market data and very high ingest rates.
Column-store time-series engine with the q language, a fixture of capital-markets tick data.
Serverless DataFrame database from Man Group: Pandas in, versioned columnar data on S3 out.
Distributed time-series database and scripting platform for quant finance and industrial analytics.
Distributed columnar time-series database, now sold as Quasar, for tick, sensor and industrial data.
In-memory OLAP aggregation engine for bank risk analytics, renamed Atoti Server by ActiveViam.
Columnar tick database and array language from Kona's author, with JSON and SQL syntax; open-sourced in 2022.
Hosted columnar analytics platform with a spreadsheet-style interface, owned by SymphonyAI since 2023.
The original Sybase T-SQL engine, still running trading and SAP systems but firmly in SAP's sunset lane.
Bloomberg's clustered relational database with optimistic concurrency and synchronous replication.
Off-heap, memory-mapped key-value store for Java with microsecond latency and cross-process sharing.
Flash-optimized distributed key-value and document database for predictable sub-millisecond latency at scale.
Google's globally consistent, horizontally scaling SQL service with graph, vector and full-text built in.
In-memory database and Lua application server in one process, with an optional disk engine.
In-memory, partitioned SQL engine running Java stored procedures serially for millisecond decisioning.
Oracle's in-memory relational database: microsecond SQL, PL/SQL, and a cache tier for Oracle Database.
Korean hybrid in-memory/on-disk RDBMS for telecom and finance, closed-source again since 2023.
KX's vector database for time-aware AI search, with temporal similarity and hybrid retrieval.
Embedded in-memory and hybrid database for devices, real-time systems and time-series analytics.
deprecated, discontinued & research · 2
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