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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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 durabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectMicrosoft
Initial release20132012201420162017
Current release155851.0.7180, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaScriptC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesUsing Apache Lucene
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 developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes

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