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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. chDB vs. DuckDB vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

duckdb.org

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

duckdb.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Initial release

2013

2023

2018

2001

Current release

15585

0.10, February 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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