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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Blueflood vs. HBase vs. Kingbase

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial 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	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blueflood.io

hbase.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

1999

Current release

15585

2.3.4, January 2021

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

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

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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