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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Databricks vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr vs. Titan

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.databricks.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssolr.apache.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDatabricksMicrosoftApache Software FoundationAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132013199220062012
Current release155851902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava pluginsyes
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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