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DBMS > Axibase vs. Databricks vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Databricks vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  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 visualizationThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.databricks.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDatabricksFatCloudCCRi and others
Initial release2013201320122014
Current release155855.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC#Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infovia applicationsno
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factordepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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