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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Lovefield

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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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

Initial release

2013

2017

2015

2014

Current release

15585

2022, May 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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