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DBMS > Axibase vs. BaseX vs. Citus vs. OpenQM vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BaseX vs. Citus vs. OpenQM vs. TimesTen

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebasex.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAxibase CorporationBaseX GmbHRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20132007201019931998
Current release1558510.7, August 20238.1, December 20183.4-1211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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