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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. LokiJS vs. StarRocks

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

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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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	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Axibase Corporation

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2014

2020

Current release

15585

21.2, February 2021

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, 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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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