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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. DataFS vs. OpenSearch vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

All 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 search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

newdatabase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

opensearch.org/docs/latest

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Mobiland AG

Amazon Web Services

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2018

2021

2016

Current release

15585

1.1.263, October 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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