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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Axibase  Xexclude from comparison	Drizzle  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
		Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization	MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.35 Rank #282   Overall #25   Time Series DBMS		Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS
Website	axibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­finance		www.hawkular.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation			www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer	Axibase Corporation	Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker	Community supported by Red Hat	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2013	2008	2014	1993
Current release	15585	7.2.4, September 2012
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid	Open Source GNU GPL	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C++	Java
Server operating systems	Linux	FreeBSD Linux OS X	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
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	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
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes with proprietary extensions	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC Proprietary protocol (Network API) RESTful HTTP API	JDBC	HTTP REST	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Go Java PHP Python R Ruby	C C++ Java PHP	Go Java Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	yes
Triggers	yes	no hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.	yes via Hawkular Alerting	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding	Sharding based on Cassandra	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system			Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		Pluggable authentication mechanisms e.g. LDAP, HTTP	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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