Time series databases · RankedQuestDB
QuestDB is a time series database for storing and querying time-stamped data · questdb.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
TimescaleDB is first at 62%.
TimescaleDB is first at 64%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
TimescaleDB is first at 57%.
Why models recommend it
“High ingestion throughput with SQL and open formats like Parquet, with zero license cost → QuestDB open-source core.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“QuestDB if performance and raw speed are priorities and you're starting fresh”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“QuestDB is another good option for teams needing to handle large volumes of time-series data without a high cost.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“The High-Speed Challenger: QuestDB ... faster at both writing and querying massive datasets”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as QuestDB, over the 126 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120 | 66 | Compare → | |
| 115 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 95 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 85 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 67 | 0 | View → | |
| 39 | 1 | View → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of QuestDB →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on QuestDB's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- demanding workloads in capital markets, aerospace, and energy
- Price stated
- Free Enterprise Trial; Download
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free Enterprise Trial
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- On-prem, AWS, Azure, GCP, BYOC
- Customers named
- Laser Digital Nomura, Mizuho, OKX, Ripple, Hidden Road, B3, Brevan Howard, Airbus
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 106 of the 126 answers that named QuestDB and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
354 of the 440 domain citations in answers naming QuestDB came from a third party's page. Twenty-eight were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 385 | 0 | 2024-08-01 | Time series DBs, Object storage | |
| Blog | 203 | 11 | 2026-10-01 | Time series DBs, ETL | |
| Comparison | 22 | 3 | 2026-08-30 | Time series DBs | |
| Case study | 8 | 0 | 2026-04-16 | ||
| Report or ebook | 7 | 0 | 2023-05-22 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Questdb qwp gorilla timestamp compression blog
- 2026-09-25Questdb time series joins guide blog
- 2026-09-11Questdb ducklake blog
- 2026-09-04Parquet and iceberg questdb blog
- 2026-08-30Questdb vs kdb comparison
- 2026-08-25Questdb enterprise 4 0 release blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page questdb.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.