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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Fauna vs. SpaceTime vs. VoltDB

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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.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

fauna.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Fauna, Inc.

Mireo

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2020

2010

Current release

15585

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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