BTrDB vs OneTick
BTrDB
btrdb.readthedocs.io
OneTick
onetick.comSide by side
| Figure | BTrDB | OneTick |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Time-Series Databases | 8.8 (#3) | 8.1 (#13) |
| Integrations | The Python documentation includes examples using Dash and Plotly to plot data queried from BTrDB. | The platform connects to market data vendors through standard APIs and its Python interface supports packages including Matplotlib, NumPy, Pandas, and Jupyter notebooks. |
| Performance | The documentation reports 53 million inserted values per second and 119 million queried values per second on a measured four-node cluster of large EC2 nodes. | The product page states bulk processing rates above 10 million ticks per second per core and real-time collection rates of 400,000 to 600,000 messages per second per core, depending on feed. |
| Product | BTrDB is a time-partitioned, version-annotated clustered time-series database for high-density univariate data. | OneTick is a time-series tick data platform for capturing, storing, and analyzing financial data such as prices, trades, and order books. |
| Security | The documentation describes TLS access on port 4411 and API-key authentication, which requires the TLS port. | For hosted services, OneMarketData lists encrypted session authentication, encryption in flight, physical data center security, named-employee access restrictions, security policies, and termination and purge policies. |
| Support | The documentation invites users to submit pull requests or open a GitHub issue for additions or corrections. | OneMarketData offers professional services from a global team of market data technology specialists to assist with implementation and integration. |
Plans
In their own words
BTrDB
BTrDB is a free, MIT-licensed, self-hosted time-series database for dense, high-precision univariate data. It partitions data by time, supports clustered deployments, and records stream changes as new versions that queries can target. Streams have unique UUIDs and can be grouped into collections with tags and annotations. The Python btrdb package supports nanosecond-timestamp queries and insertion through Stream.insert, PyArrow tables, or pandas DataFrames. Statistical queries can return minimum, maximum, mean, count, and standard deviation without reading every underlying point. StreamSets can be filtered and converted to pandas DataFrames or CSV files. Documentation shows Dash and Plotly visualization, Ray-worker serialization, TLS on port 4411, and API-key authentication requiring that TLS port. Arrow-based tabular methods are documented for commercial customers with Arrow-enabled servers. BTrDB reports measured cluster throughput and compression figures, and describes smart-grid aggregation at city or country scale as one target use case.
OneTick
OneTick is an enterprise platform for capturing tick data, managing it, and using it for streaming analytics and research. Its tools support historical simulations, back-tests, trading and market-making strategies, transaction-cost models, and real-time surveillance across equities, fixed income, futures, FX, options, and full order-book data. OneTick states that it has no limits on data volumes, peak rates, or stored-history length. OneTick Cloud provides Python, SQL, and REST API access, visual dashboards, and CSV and Parquet file access. Its global equities, futures, and options coverage spans more than 200 markets, with historical data reaching back decades. Machine-learning event processors support training, prediction, evaluation, and real-time learning, including support vector machines and k-means clustering. Deployments can be on-premise, in OneMarketData private or public cloud, or hybrid. Pricing is on request, and a 30-day trial is listed. Installing the Python package requires credentials from a OneMarketData representative.