DBMS > Axibase vs. Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.heavy.ai

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2017

2016

2009

1995

Current release

15585

5.10, January 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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