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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. OrientDB vs. Prometheus

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilitySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comgeospock.comorientdb.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectGeoSpockOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2013201220102015
Current release155851.0.6735, June 20232.0, September 20193.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJava, JavascriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoJava, Javascriptno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
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
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 developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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