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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.enterprisedb.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAxibase CorporationEnterpriseDBCommunity supported by Red HatObjectBox Limited
Initial release2013200520142017
Current release1558514, December 20214.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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