DBMS > Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.bigchaindb.com

fauna.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.fauna.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Fauna, Inc.

Spotify

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

Current release

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

JSON types

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 Elasticsearch

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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