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DBMS > Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFoundationDBApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132009201320142011
Current release155853.10.0, March 20226.2.28, November 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes 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 indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Linearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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