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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SwayDB

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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 Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

couchdb.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

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

Microsoft

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2005

2012

2018

Current release

15585

3.3.3, December 2023

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

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

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

RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

optimistic locking

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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 database

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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