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DBMS > Axibase vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantplanetscale.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014PlanetScaleSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132000201020202011
Current release155854.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangGoC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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