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questdb

Data Warehouses & Analytics

An open‑source, column‑oriented time‑series database designed for ultra‑fast ingestion and low‑latency SQL queries

Java Latest 9.4.1 · 18h ago Security brief →

Features

  • Blazingly fast ingestion (single events to millions/sec)
  • Low‑latency, time‑series‑extended SQL (ASOF JOIN, WINDOW JOIN, etc.)
  • Multi‑tier storage: WAL → native columnar → Parquet on object storage

Recent releases

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9.4.1 Breaking risk
Breaking upgrade

SQL fuzzer + functions + MVs + Parquet + QWP

No immediate action
9.4.0 Breaking risk

Drop posting index before downgrade

9.3.5 Breaking risk
Breaking changes
  • SAMPLE BY timezone bucket alignment: Sub-day buckets now uniformly spaced in UTC during DST transitions; FROM/TO boundaries interpreted as local time
Notable features
  • Lateral joins with subquery correlation
  • SQL-standard UNNEST for array expansion
  • Statistical window functions: stddev_pop/samp, var_pop/samp, covar_pop/samp, corr
9.3.4 Breaking risk
Breaking changes
  • Parquet Varchar now uses RLE Dictionary encoding instead of Delta Length Byte Array
  • Constant expression folding: Infinity/-Infinity in expressions collapse to NULL
Notable features
  • Dynamic window ranges in WINDOW JOIN
  • Parquet row group pruning with bloom filters
  • Array functions: array_sort, array_reverse, array_elem_min/max/avg/sum
9.3.3 New feature
Security fixes
  • Fixed server crash from HTTP request with overflowing chunk size
Notable features
  • HORIZON JOIN for markout analysis with offset-based aggregations
  • twap() time-weighted average price aggregate
  • WINDOW definition clause for reusable specifications

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Alternative to

InfluxDB Kdb+ TimescaleDB MongoDB

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