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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Fauna vs. RethinkDB vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

fauna.com

rethinkdb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Fauna, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

informationpartners gmbh

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2014

2009

2015

2018

Current release

15585

2.4.1, August 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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