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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FatDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. Snowflake

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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

FatCloud

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

Current release

15585

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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