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DBMS > Axibase vs. Datomic vs. RethinkDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. RethinkDB vs. Vitess

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 durabilityDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comrethinkdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comrethinkdb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2013201220092013
Current release155851.0.7075, December 20232.4.1, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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