DBMS > Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Event Store

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

rocksdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Axibase Corporation

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2013

1985

Current release

15585

21.2, February 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

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

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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