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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.datomic.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Cognitect

Circonus LLC.

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2013

2012

2017

2018

Current release

15585

1.0.6735, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in Lua

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

using RocksDB

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

User concepts

Access control

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