Peak time-series performance
QuestDB is the world's fastest growing open-source time-series database. It offers massive ingestion throughput, millisecond queries, powerful time-series SQL extensions, and scales well with minimal and maximal hardware. Save costs with better performance and efficiency.
Open formats
- Historical data in Parquet
- Multiple availability zones
- Decouple storage/compute
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QuestDB leaps your team forward
Leadership through open formats
Globally distributed, hyper-fast next generation database
- Open formats
- Leverages existing open formats. No vendor lock-in.
- Apache Parquet
- Enhanced compression and encoding, for ingress or egress.
- Super read/write
- Fast ingest and low latency SQL queries
- Full stream
- Stream market data in from feeds or sensors, apply Parquet on read
- Direct to Parquet?
- Bypass QuestDB ingest, query Parquet directly from the object store
- Versatile ecosystem
- Diverse clients connect to your data, app, AI and ML frameworks
Simple, high performance SQL
Easily adopted, time-series optimized SQL
SELECT timestamp, symbol, priceFROM tradesWHERE timestamp IN '2024-06-21;1M';
-- Search timeSELECT timestamp, symbol, priceFROM tradesWHERE timestamp IN '2024-06-21;1M';
SELECT timestamp, symbol, avg(price)FROM tradesSAMPLE BY 5m FILL(LINEAR);
-- Slice timeSELECT timestamp, symbol, avg(price)FROM tradesSAMPLE BY 5m FILL(LINEAR);
SELECT timestamp, symbol, priceFROM tradesLATEST ON timestamp PARTITION BY symbol;
-- Navigate timeSELECT timestamp, symbol, priceFROM tradesLATEST ON timestamp PARTITION BY symbol;
SELECT timestamp, bid_price, ask_priceFROM bidsASOF JOIN asks;
-- Merge timeSELECT timestamp, bid_price, ask_priceFROM bidsASOF JOIN asks;
Capital Markets
24/7 trading of power and gas
Leading energy trading firm Energetech leverages QuestDB for real-time trading signals. Processes massive amounts of market and fundamental data to generate forecasts to drive trading decisions.
- High throughput: Handles bursts of data while ingesting 140GB of data per day
- Real-time aggregations: Process live market data with millisecond response time
- Simplification: Built-in deduplication and out of order handling simplifies the data pipeline
"QuestDB is a specialized database that excels in its focus area. It's easy to get started and addresses many pain points with time series data, offering outstanding read and write performance."
Peak performance time-series
Hyper ingestion
Using QuestDB, we deliver time series datasets with real-time market data from a top 10 blockchain. This outperforms a legacy cloud-based data platform at a fraction of the cost, reducing TCO by >90%.

Community love for QuestDB
Category user reviews on G2 rate QuestDB with the highest user satisfaction. Visit our vibrant Slack to chat with the community, the QuestDB core developers, and our technical AI-bot, to find out why.
Better on a Pi, best on full hardware
Max performance, min hardware
QuestDB is the first database that scales to the volume and cardinality of data that Beeks Analytics is capable of generating.

QuestDB is a time series database truly built by developers for developers. We found that QuestDB provides a unicorn solution to handle extreme TPS while also offering a simplified SQL programming interface.
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Hyper ingestion, millisecond queries, and powerful SQL.
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