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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HBase vs. Interbase

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerhbase.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetEmbarcadero
Initial release20132016201720081984
Current release155852.3.4, January 2021InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonononono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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