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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebigobject.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisopentsdb.netwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationBigObject, Inc.InterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20132015201820112014
Current release155852023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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