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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FeatureBase vs. GBase vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.featurebase.com

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Initial release

2013

2017

2004

2010

Current release

15585

2022, May 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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