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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Tarantool

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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.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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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	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Elastic

FatCloud

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2010

2012

2020

2008

Current release

15585

8.6, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via applications

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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