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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.citusdata.com

www.hawkular.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

2015

Current release

15585

8.1, December 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

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

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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