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DBMS > Axibase vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.citusdata.comwww.datomic.comgeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.datomic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectGeoSpockMicrosoft
Initial release2013201020122015
Current release155858.1, December 20181.0.6735, June 20232.0, September 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, ClojureJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing Azure authentication

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