DBMS > Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector 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	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blueflood.io

geospock.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Rackspace

GeoSpock

Amazon Web Services

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2013

2021

2010

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

temporal, categorical

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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