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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. SQLite vs. YTsaurus

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.sqlite.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Elastic

FatCloud

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2010

2012

2000

2023

Current release

15585

8.6, January 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

server-less

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
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

via file-system locks

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access Control Lists

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