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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. RethinkDB vs. SQL.JS

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.datomic.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Cognitect

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2012

2009

2012

Current release

15585

1.0.7180, July 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes

Transaction Functions

no

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

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

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

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

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

yes

users and table-level permissions

no

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