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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. SAP IQ

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

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	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blueflood.io

www.datomic.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.datomic.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Rackspace

Cognitect

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2012

1994

Current release

15585

1.0.6735, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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