DBMS > Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP IQ vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP IQ vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cassandra.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

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

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

SenX

Initial release

2013

2008

1994

2015

Current release

15585

4.1.3, July 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 version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, details here

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication using Paxos

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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.

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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 rights for users can be defined per object

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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