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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. Faircom DB

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.datomic.com

www.eventstore.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

developers.eventstore.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Cognitect

Event Store Limited

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2013

2012

1979

Current release

15585

1.0.6735, June 2023

21.2, February 2021

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

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
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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