QuestDB vs SmartBear
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London YC W20 fastest-growing open-source time-series database with 15K+ GitHub stars; $14.4M total ($12M Series A Nov 2021) with SIMD vector SQL serving investment banks and hedge funds competing with InfluxDB for high-frequency time-series.
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QuestDB is a London, United Kingdom-based open-source time-series database — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $14.4-18 million in total funding including a $12 million Series A in November 2021 from Intel Ignite, Approx.vc, New Forge, and 468 Capital — providing financial services companies, IoT operators, and data infrastructure teams with the fastest time-series database globally (as measured by DB-Engines growth ranking), achieving 15,000+ GitHub stars through column-oriented storage, parallelized vector execution, SIMD CPU instructions, and low-latency SQL queries that enable blazingly fast ingestion and analysis of time-stamped data. Founded in 2019, QuestDB serves Tier 1/2 investment banks, leading hedge funds, national stock exchanges, and major crypto firms where microsecond-level query performance on time-series data is operationally critical.
SmartBear is a software quality company offering a suite of API testing, visual testing, performance testing, and test management tools used by enterprise development teams.
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SmartBear is a software quality tooling company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts that provides a broad portfolio of products spanning API design and testing, visual testing, performance testing, and test management — serving development and QA teams across the full software quality lifecycle with purpose-built tools for each testing discipline rather than a single consolidated platform. SmartBear's most widely known product, ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI), is an industry-standard API testing tool used by QA engineers and developers to validate REST, SOAP, and GraphQL API behavior through functional test automation, security scanning, and load testing. SwaggerHub, SmartBear's API design and documentation platform, is another flagship product with broad enterprise adoption in the API governance and design-first development workflow market.
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