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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Derby vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

db.apache.org/derby

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Elastic

FatCloud

Initial release

2013

1997

2010

2012

Current release

15585

10.17.1.0, November 2023

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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