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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigObject vs. RocksDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bigobject.io

rocksdb.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Axibase Corporation

BigObject, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

2011

Current release

15585

9.2.1, May 2024

7.x

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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Database as a 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

Any that supports .NET

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

yes

ACID

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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