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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  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 visualizationCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.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 storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasekairosdb.github.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpock
Initial release2013201220132014 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 languageJavaJava, 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, stringyesyesyesyes
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
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCGraphite 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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonouser defined functions
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica 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 systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonoACID 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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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