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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. Hive vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.gbase.cngeode.apache.orghive.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookTimescale
Initial release20132004200220122017
Current release15585GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.1, February 20173.1.3, April 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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