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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Badger vs. EDB Postgres vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.33
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#315  Overall
#46  Key-value stores
Score2.46
Rank#121  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score48.81
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.enterprisedb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDGraph LabsEnterpriseDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.
Initial release20132017200519832017
Current release1558514, December 202119.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
PHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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