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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Quasardb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comgeospock.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockquasardb
Initial release2013201220082009
Current release155851.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 20122.0, September 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++Java, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categoricalyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCJDBCHTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tableCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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