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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. ScyllaDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#307	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.88
Rank	#72	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#326	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bangdb.com

www.scylladb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.scylladb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

ScyllaDB

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2012

2015

2012

2018

Current release

15585

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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