2 categories · RankedQuestDB
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time series databases | Data platform | 4% | 4 of 66 | 4% | 57 | accepted challenger | |
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 70 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated QuestDB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“1. QuestDB: A time series database that is designed to handle large amounts of data and provide fast query performance.” Llama 4 Maverick · Time series DBs · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“specialized TSDBs like InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or QuestDB are generally safer choices” Mistral Small · Time series DBs · negative prompt · first choice
“For new projects in 2026, I'd strongly lean toward QuestDB” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Time series DBs · negative prompt · first choice
“Best all-round low-cost pick: QuestDB” Muse Glimmer 30B · Time series DBs · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“QuestDB is strong for time-centric analytics, but it is not the best choice if most of your queries do not filter by time” Perplexity Sonar · Time series DBs · negative prompt · soft negative
“QuestDB (SQLi)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time series DBs · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as QuestDB, over the 153 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuestDB was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 142 of the 153 answers that named QuestDB and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
599 of the 705 domain citations in answers naming QuestDB came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
questdb.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, QuestDB takes 4% of first choices and TimescaleDB takes 63%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 880 a month (“questdb”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 14,289 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,733 · 240 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,459
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 10 across its categories
- Named in
- 153 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 142 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| 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.
Follow QuestDB
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
QuestDB is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Open-source time-series database
- For
- demanding workloads in capital markets, aerospace, and energy
- Price stated
- Free Enterprise Trial; Download questdb.com
- Starting price
- 0 questdb.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free Enterprise Trial questdb.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2 CompliantSOC 2
- Hosting
- On-premAWSAzureGCPBYOC
- Customers named
- Laser Digital NomuraMizuhoOKXRippleHidden RoadB3Brevan HowardAirbus
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What QuestDB's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: questdb.com, trust.questdb.com, questdb.com/use-cases, questdb.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when QuestDB's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as QuestDB, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for QuestDB by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where QuestDB is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name QuestDB, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.