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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilityA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterpriserethinkdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectKyligence, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Rockset
Initial release20132012201620092019
Current release155851.0.6735, June 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding inforange basedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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 controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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