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DBMS > Axibase vs. Firebolt vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebolt vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iokairosdb.github.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFirebolt Analytics Inc.
Initial release2013202020132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release155851.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite 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
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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