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24 alternatives to Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live

QuestDB live demo. Query three large datasets and more than 2 billion rows in milliseconds with SQL

QuestDB is a time-series database that queries 1.6 billion rows in milliseconds. It launched in June 2020 and is designed for applications requiring fast analysis of large datasets with time-based data. The database is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   QuestDB▲194

   Fastest open source database for time-series and analytics

   2020 · questdb.com · its alternatives →

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   QuestDB – fast time series database, zero-GC Java▲22

   QuestDB is the open-source time-series database for demanding workloads: ultra-low latency, high throughput, tiered storage, and fast SQL on open formats.

   2019 · questdb.io · its alternatives →

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   QuestDB with Python, Pandas and SQL in a Jupyter notebook – no install▲53

   2023 · play.questdb.io · its alternatives →

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   Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms▲785

   2020 · leeoniya.github.io · its alternatives →

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   A benchmark for analytical databases (Snowflake, Druid, Redshift)▲137

   I created a web page to compare different analytical databases (both self-managed and services, open-source and proprietary) on a realistic dataset. It contains 20+ databases, each with installation and data loading scripts. And they can be compared to each other on a set of 43 queries, by data load time or by storage size. There are switches to select different types of databases for comparison - for example, only MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible. If you play with the switches, many interesting details will be uncovered. Full description:…

   2022 · benchmark.clickhouse.com · its alternatives →

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   SereneDBfree▲262

   Ultra-Fast Search & Analytics Database, Agentic AI ready

   Sep 2026 · serenedb.com · its alternatives →

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   PlanetScale Boost▲93

   Up to 1,000× faster database queries with just a few clicks

   2023 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →

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   Visual SQL▲512

   Through months of design, prototypes, and user tests we made a visual version of SQL - which has proven to enable 80% of business users to write complex quer…

   2020 · chartio.com · its alternatives →

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   Estuary Flow▲225

   Connect your data, where you want it, in milliseconds

   2023 · estuary.dev · its alternatives →

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    Marple▲86

    Hi HN! I’m Nero from Marple, and we build time series tooling for Aerospace & Automotive. In 2020, we launched our first product: a sort of Grafana on steroids designed for high performance analysis. After integrating with a lot of different TS databases, we kept running into their design limits when trying to deliver the best performance & UX to our users. That’s why we are launching Marple DB today (https://www.marpledata.com/marple-db). Marple DB transforms measurements files (CSV, MAT, HDF5, TDMS, …) into a queryable lakehouse. We designed for extreme ingestion…

    2022 · marpledata.com · its alternatives →

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    BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics▲209

    Hi HN! We're Evgeny and Arjun, and we’re building a better way to do analytics with Postgres. We love Postgres for its simplicity, power, and rich ecosystem. But engineers have to still get bogged down with heavyweight and expensive OLAP systems when connecting an analytics data stack. Postgres is amazing at OLTP queries, but not for OLAP queries (large data scans and aggregations). Even in this case, we’ve still heard from countless scaling startups that they still try to use only a read replica to run analytics workloads since they don’t want to deal with the data engineering complexity of…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Evidence▲192

    Interactive dashboards with extraordinary performance

    2024 · evidence.dev · its alternatives →

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    CamelAI▲194

    camelAI turns your database into an AI data analyst. Ask questions in plain English, get instant reports with visualizations - no SQL required. Why we built this: - Business teams waste hours waiting for data analysts to build dashboards - Non-technical founders can't get quick insights from their own data - Writing SQL queries is a barrier to data-driven decisions What makes it different: - Uses DuckDB to query terabytes in seconds (built-in, no setup needed) - Supports advanced analytics (cohort analysis, statistical computations) not just basic SQL - Multi-turn conversations: AI explores…

    2025 · camelai.com · its alternatives →

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    DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres▲91

    Postgres-Backed Drop-in Temporal Replacement. Contribute to dbos-inc/dbosify-py development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SpreadsheetDB – A database that you can query with spreadsheets▲144

    2017 · spreadsheetdb.io · its alternatives →

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    Data Warehouses by Segment▲114

    All your analytics in a Redshift or Postgres DW in minutes

    2015 · twilio.com · its alternatives →

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    GreptimeDB▲72

    Open-source database for large-scale time-series data

    2022 · greptime.com · its alternatives →

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    DBChaos – A Database stress testing tool▲80

    Stress-test your database with pre-defined queries - adaptive-scale/dbchaos

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    DATA SWEEP▲21

    Over 3.1M datasets ready to be used for your research

    2025 · datasweep.app · its alternatives →

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    1M Song Dataset dev in 10 mins▲77

    2011 · mortardata.com · its alternatives →

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    Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage▲108

    2018 · pushdata.io · its alternatives →

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    PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types▲97

    Hey! I'm Andrei. I got frustrated by how people tend to build overcomplicated backend systems, being "motivated" by big tech case studies and popular books. So, I started exploring lean architecture, and building my digital garden of ideas, approaches and data that align with this direction. Here I want to present one of the tools – Sizing tool for PostgreSQL. I've benchmarked PostgreSQL on different EC2 instances and disks, with different initial data sets to see performance that these instances can give you. And I've built a tool to visualize this data, which I welcome you to explore. So,…

    Jul 2026 · postgres.saneengineer.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a site to instant-search 32 Million Songs in milliseconds▲16

    Songs Search with Typesense

    2020 · songs-search.typesense.org · its alternatives →

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    CozoDB, Hybrid Relational-Graph-Vector Database▲137

    Hi HN! We're thrilled to share CozoDB v0.6, a monumental update to our FOSS database, which already unifies relational and graph features. With the addition of vector search, CozoDB becomes an even better companion for LLMs like ChatGPT. This release introduces vector search using HNSW indices within Datalog, enabling seamless integration with powerful features such as ad-hoc joins, recursive Datalog, and classical whole-graph algorithms. This update significantly broadens CozoDB's capabilities. Check out the linked release note for an in-depth look at the new features, comparisons to other…

    2023 · docs.cozodb.org · its alternatives →

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