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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. CouchDB vs. Ehcache vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.ehcache.org/documentation

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

15585

3.3.3, December 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Java

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 database

Role based authorization

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