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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.20
Rank#307  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.46
Rank#146  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score21.47
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebolt.iowww.gbase.cnwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFirebolt Analytics Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release20132020200420092013
Current release15585GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9.8.11, March 20162.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesnoNumeric data and Strings
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnosimple rights management via user accounts
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AxibaseFireboltGBaseHypertableInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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