DBMS > Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQLite vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQLite vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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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	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blueflood.io

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.sqlite.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Rackspace

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2008

2000

2017

Current release

15585

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 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

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, details here

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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