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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Brytlyt vs. ClickHouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

brytlyt.io

clickhouse.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Brytlyt

Clickhouse Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2013

2016

2013

1994

Current release

15585

5.0, August 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

simple rights management via user accounts

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