DBMS > Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Event Store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Axibase Corporation

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2010

2016

Current release

15585

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

hosted

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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