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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.bigchaindb.com

www.exasol.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.exasol.com/resources

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Exasol

SAP

Initial release

2013

2016

2000

2010

Current release

15585

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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