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

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

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  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 visualizationCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Datomic 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 modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.datomic.comgeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.datomic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCockroach LabsCognitectGeoSpockMicrosoft
Initial release2013201520122015
Current release1558524.1.0, May 20241.0.6735, June 20232.0, September 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ClojureJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnone 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 replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTnone 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 controlRole-based access controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing Azure authentication

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