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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebolt vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.firebolt.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2020

2010

2011

Current release

15585

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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