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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. DataFS vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financenewdatabase.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationMobiland AGElasticFatCloudSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132018201020122022
Current release155851.1.263, October 20228.6, January 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsAll OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infovia applications
Triggersyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia applications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingProprietary Sharding systemShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-Profileno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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