QuestDB 8.0 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source time-series database. QuestDB continues to cater to high throughput ingestion and fast SQL queries so it can handle use-cases from financial data to IoT sensors. With today's QuestDB 8.0 release, it's even faster.

QuestDB 8.0 has around a 50% performance improvement on average over its already speedy SQL query performance. QuestDB 8.0 also adds data compression support for the (Open)ZFS file-system. This OpenZFS data compression integration was previously only available in their enterprise version while is now available in the open-source QuestDB for fully embracing OpenZFS support and system-level data compression.

QuestDB 8.0 also brings the VARCHAR data type support, the Jemalloc allocator is now used by default, and a variety of other performance enhancements.

Downloads and more details on the big QuestDB 8.0 database release via GitHub .