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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

google.github.io/lovefield

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Cognitect

Softmotions

Google

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

2019

Current release

15585

1.0.7180, July 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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