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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blueflood.io

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Rackspace

Cognitect

InterSystems

Initial release

2013

2012

2018

Current release

15585

1.0.6735, June 2023

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

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

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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