Elevating industry and capital markets
Customers with the most demanding use-cases choose QuestDB. Whether at the frontier of capital markets or heavy industry, ingestion bottlenecks and ballooning costs are a thing of the past. Learn more about our growing customers.
- Peak ingestion rate, row/s
- 5M+
- Avg. speed gain vs InfluxDB
- 10x
- TSDB on DB-Engines
- Fastest growing
- Avg. service uptime
- 99.999%
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: Processes 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."
Capital Markets
The world's first cloud-based exchange
Aquis Exchange provides primary and secondary markets for high growth companies, with over €2bn daily turnover. QuestDB processes massive volumes of data and captures every tick, trade, and latency metric.
- Market surveillance: Monitor trading activity in real-time and ensure a fair and transparent trading environment
- SQL simplicity: Familiar SQL interface for complex time-series analytics and real-time dashboards
- Extreme TPS: Handle millions of rows per second with consistent performance
"QuestDB is a time series database truly built by developers for developers. It provides a unicorn solution to handle extreme transactions per second while also offering a simplified SQL programming interface."
Aerospace
Airbus monitors fleet data
Processes billions of data points daily. With QuestDB's ingestion performance, Airbus provides real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance for mission critical components.
- Massive scale: Billions of daily data points processed efficiently
"QuestDB is used at Airbus for real-time applications involving billions of data points per day. For us, QuestDB is an outstanding solution that meets (and exceeds) our performance requirements."
Telecommunications
Airtel's video streaming service
Airtel XStream Play uses QuestDB to track engagement and device metrics for their video media streaming service. Their media analytics platform processes billions of daily records.
- Sustained ingestion load: Ingest billions of records to produce real-time reports
"Switching to QuestDB was a game-changer for our analytics. With Elasticsearch, we faced slow ingestion and latency issues for queries. With QuestDB, we process billions of records per day smoothly."
Financial Technology
AI for trading insights
Award winning Financial AI analytics platform helps investors make better trading decisions. Achieved 10x faster queries with 75% less hardware after migrating from InfluxDB.
- Resource optimization: 4x reduction in hardware requirements with better performance
"We switched from InfluxDB to QuestDB to get queries that are on average 300x faster utilizing 1/4 of the hardware, without ever overtaxing our servers."
Aerospace
Airbus monitors fleet data
Processes billions of data points daily. With QuestDB's ingestion performance, Airbus provides real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance for mission critical components.
- Massive scale: Billions of daily data points processed efficiently
"QuestDB is used at Airbus for real-time applications involving billions of data points per day. For us, QuestDB is an outstanding solution that meets (and exceeds) our performance requirements."
Telecommunications
Airtel's video streaming service
Airtel XStream Play uses QuestDB to track engagement and device metrics for their video media streaming service. Their media analytics platform processes billions of daily records.
- Sustained ingestion load: Ingest billions of records to produce real-time reports
"Switching to QuestDB was a game-changer for our analytics. With Elasticsearch, we faced slow ingestion and latency issues for queries. With QuestDB, we process billions of records per day smoothly."
Financial Technology
AI for trading insights
Award winning Financial AI analytics platform helps investors make better trading decisions. Achieved 10x faster queries with 75% less hardware after migrating from InfluxDB.
- Resource optimization: 4x reduction in hardware requirements with better performance
"We switched from InfluxDB to QuestDB to get queries that are on average 300x faster utilizing 1/4 of the hardware, without ever overtaxing our servers."
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Capital Markets
B3 powers Brazil's stock market
B3 is Latin America's largest stock exchange, offering equities, commodities, and futures. QuestDB processes real-time market data and powers their Central Securities Depository platform, handling millions of trades daily with exceptional performance and security.
- Cloud-native: Seamless integration with modern cloud architecture
- High security: Robust security features for critical market data
- Real-time processing: Millisecond queries for fast reconciliation process
"The Central Securities Depository platform demands exceptional performance, robust security, and resilience. We selected QuestDB due to its high performance and straightforward implementation."
Capital Markets
Exchange surveillance and monitoring
Beeks Group provides exchanges with advanced tools to monitor network latency, detect microbursts, and identify performance bottlenecks as they occur. Replaced InfluxDB with QuestDB to scale.
- High cardinality: Store new orders, acks, fills, matching engine outputs, ticks and pcap
- Scale: Process market and network data at previously unattainable volumes
- AI-powered real-time analytics: Instant analysis of market data powered by AI models via MindsDB's native QuestDB integration
"QuestDB is the first database that scales to the volume and cardinality of data that Beeks Analytics is capable of generating."
Open source to Enterprise
Upgrade to Enterprise any time
Run QuestDB at scale, with full support from QuestDB's creators
- Highly available
Multi-primary writes and read-replicas
- Robust security
TLS and Role-based Access Control
- Tiered storage
Store historical data within an Object Store
- Active Directory/SSO
Easy integration with existing access control
- Expert support
Straight from the creators of QuestDB
- Deploy anywhere
Cloud, on-prem, hybrid, or BYOC
Capital Markets
High-frequency proprietary trading
Anti Capital operates its own latency-sensitive trading system and employs sophisticated trading algorithms. QuestDB collects level 2 tick data and facilitates algo backtesting.
- Scale: Handle terabytes of data without performance degradation
- Low-latency: High-speed ingestion of tick data from low-latency feeds and exchanges
- Backtesting: Use Rust for multi-pass and random access on the data
"Many databases are easy to use when you first start them up. The difference is, QuestDB works just as well many months (and terabytes) later."
Energy Infrastructure
Copenhagen Atomics powers nuclear
Next-generation molten salt reactor manufacturer uses QuestDB for real-time thorium reactor monitoring. Safe and efficient operation is ensured through reliable and performant time-series data processing.
- Real-time monitoring: Track critical reactor metrics with sub-second precision
- High flexibility: Adapt to changing monitoring requirements with ease
- Superior performance: Process complex time-series data with unmatched efficiency
"QuestDB was our choice for real time data due to high performance, open source, high flexibility and great support. Performance was significantly better than the competition."
Machine Learning
Yahoo scales ML engine
Powers autoscaling decisions for Yahoo's ML engine through real-time metrics monitoring, enabling dynamic resource allocation for search and recommendation systems.
- ML optimization: Real-time metrics drive intelligent scaling decisions
"We use QuestDB to monitor metrics for autoscaling decisions within our ML engine that provides search, recommendation, and personalization via models and aggregations on continuously changing data."
Blockchain
XRP Ledger reduces TCO
Provides real-time market data for over 46,000 unique trading pairs on one of the largest blockchains. Serves both the XRP Ledger and Xahau, XRP's first smart contract sidechain
- Cost-effective scaling: 90% reduction in infrastructure costs with improved performance
"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%."
Industrial IoT
PCMC upgraded from InfluxDB
PCMC successfully manages thousands of columns in wide tables for industrial monitoring; traditional time-series databases struggled with data shape and ingestion.
- Flexible schema: Handle thousands of columns with consistent performance
"InfluxDB could not deal with the shape of our data, which includes wide tables with thousands of columns. Instead, we could ingest this data flawlessly into QuestDB, and then query it with SQL easily."
Machine Learning
Yahoo scales ML engine
Powers autoscaling decisions for Yahoo's ML engine through real-time metrics monitoring, enabling dynamic resource allocation for search and recommendation systems.
- ML optimization: Real-time metrics drive intelligent scaling decisions
"We use QuestDB to monitor metrics for autoscaling decisions within our ML engine that provides search, recommendation, and personalization via models and aggregations on continuously changing data."
Blockchain
XRP Ledger reduces TCO
Provides real-time market data for over 46,000 unique trading pairs on one of the largest blockchains. Serves both the XRP Ledger and Xahau, XRP's first smart contract sidechain
- Cost-effective scaling: 90% reduction in infrastructure costs with improved performance
"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%."
Industrial IoT
PCMC upgraded from InfluxDB
PCMC successfully manages thousands of columns in wide tables for industrial monitoring; traditional time-series databases struggled with data shape and ingestion.
- Flexible schema: Handle thousands of columns with consistent performance
"InfluxDB could not deal with the shape of our data, which includes wide tables with thousands of columns. Instead, we could ingest this data flawlessly into QuestDB, and then query it with SQL easily."
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