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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. Ignite vs. Riak KV vs. SQream DB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchignite.apache.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationElasticApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSQream Technologies
Initial release20132010201520092017
Current release155858.6, January 2023Apache Ignite 2.63.2.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Java, .NetErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Erlanguser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.Memcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes, using Riak Security

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