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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SQLite vs. TDengine vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2012

2000

2019

2012

Current release

15585

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

3.0, August 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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