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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/datastore

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Google

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

2020

2008

1994

Current release

15585

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, details here

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-like query language (GQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

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

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

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