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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Axibase vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.timescale.com

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Axibase Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Timescale

Initial release

2012

2013

2021

2017

Current release

7.0, November 2023

15585

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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