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DBMS > Axibase vs. Firebolt vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebolt vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebolt.iorealm.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iorealm.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFirebolt Analytics Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132020201420142011
Current release155853.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono

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