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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFauna 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financefauna.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comkairosdb.github.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFauna, Inc.GeoSpock
Initial release2013201420132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release155852.0, September 20191.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava, JavascriptJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID infoMVCC
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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